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Author : Robert W. Lambert,Jean E Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biological warfare
ISBN : UVA:X004347395
Author : Marie Isabelle Chevrier,Krzysztof Chomiczewski,Henri Garrigue,Gyorgy Granasztói,Malcolm R. Dando,G.S. Pearson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781402020988
Incidents of bioterrorism and biowarfare are likely to recur, leading to increased public concern and government action. The deficiencies of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) are in urgent need of attention: the BTWC is the central international agreement to prevent the proliferation of biological warfare programmes. Uniquely, this book is written by diplomats involved in the decade-long effort (1991-2001) in which State Parties to the BTWC tried to agree a Protocol to the Convention with legally binding measures to strengthen its effectiveness, and academics concerned with the negotiations. Just before negotiations foundered, when the Chairman's proposed text was virtually complete, the problems and proposed solutions were examined thoroughly, leading to this book. The book is wide-ranging in its review of the history of biological warfare, the reasons why the current biological revolution is of such concern, and the main features of the BTWC itself. The core of the book examines the key elements of the proposed protocol - declarations, visits, challenge-type investigations, and enhanced international cooperation - and the implications for government, industry and biodefence, giving us all a better understanding of what still remains to be done to avert a biowarfare catastrophe.
Author : Malcolm R. Dando,G.S. Pearson,Tibor Toth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401736435
In the summer of 1997 some twelve lecturers and sixty students met for ten days in Budapest Hungary in a NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) to consider "New Scientific and Technical Aspects of Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention". In many ways the meeting was ahead of its time. The Ad Hoc Group was only then about to move to the discussion of a rolling text of the Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). It had been mandated to negotiate the Protocol by the Special Conference which had considered the work of the VEREX process that had taken place following the 1991 Third Review Conference of the Convention. Now, in late 1999, after much further negotiation of the text of the Protocol we are moving towards the endgame of the negotiations. Nevertheless, the scientific and technical issues discussed in the ASI in Hungary continue to be of direct relevance to the verification of the Convention and will continue to be relevant as the eventual Protocol moves from agreement through a Preparatory Commission stage and into full implementation over the next several years. The papers in this volume are much as they were presented in Budapest both in order of presentation and in content. They were designed by the ASI co-directors, Professor Graham Pearson and Ambassador Tibor Toth (Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group) to provide an integrated overview and in-depth analysis of the issues at stake.
Author : Nicholas Roger Alan Sims
Publisher : Sipri Chemical & Biological Wa
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0198295782
The evolution of the disarmament regime of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) is described from 1980, when the first BTWC Review Conference was held, until 1998. The author analyses the results of SIPRI's first four review Conferences.
Author : Jez Littlewood
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060649962
Littlewood (U. of Southampton) follows the negotiations on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Protocol from their origins in 1975 to the completion of the Fifth Review Conference in 2002. He analyzes all the major issues and outlines the positions of the key states. Littlewood contends that the BWC has two types of states parties: minimalists,
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biological warfare (International law)
ISBN : MINN:31951D036680700
Author : P. R. Chari,Arpit Rajain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015061543099
The Essays In This Volume Address Issues Like Anxieties In The Biotech Industry That A Verification Regime Would Compromise Secrecy, Wheter The Verification Arrangements In The Chemical Weapons Convention Could Be Extended To The Btwc, And The Imperative For States To Enact Domestic Ligislation For Implementing The Btwc.
Author : Malcolm R. Dando,Cyril Klement,Marian Negut,G.S. Pearson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401004725
The Editors would like to thank the authors of the papers at the Advanced Research Workshops for their excellent presentations at the workshops and the production of their drafts. We are indebted to those who helped in the preparation of this volume. We should particularly like to acknowledge the help of Piers Millett, who compiled the papers, set them into camera-ready format and produced the index and Dr. Simon Whitby who made the final changes to the manuscript. Any remaining errors are, of course, our responsibility. Malcolm R. Dando Cyril Klement Marian Negut Graham S. Pearson IX ACHIEVING SECURITY BENEFITS FROM TECHNICAL COOPERATION UNDER THE BIOLOGICAL AND TOXIN WEAPONS CONVENTION GRAHAM S. PEARSON Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 IDP, UK 1. Background l The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which opened for signature in 1972 2 and entered into force in 1975 currently has 144 States Parties and 18 Signatory States Article I of the Convention is all-embracing in its complete prohibition of biological weapons stating that: Each State Party to this Convention undertakes never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain: (1) Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes; (2) Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such
Author : Thomas Bernauer,United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021887644
Author : Malcolm Dando
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403907196
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.
Author : Nicholas A. Sims
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134024889
This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts. Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs strengthening. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is the cornerstone of this disarmament regime. After years of deadlock and disappointment its Sixth Review Conference in 2006 generated new hope that biological disarmament could be reinforced from within. This book studies the intricate diplomacy of the Sixth Review Conference as a key moment in the recovery of self-confidence by the treaty parties. It makes detailed proposals for developing an accountability framework and stronger institutions so that the treaty regime can work better. It examines alternative futures for the BWC and the trajectories to be avoided or encouraged in the short, medium and longer terms as its regime evolves. Controversially, by comparing treaty constraints on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons it restores the BWC firmly to the realm of disarmament rather than arms control and rescues it from misleading identifications with counterproliferation and counterterrorism models. This book will appeal to policy-makers, diplomats and students of biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, international security and IR in general. Nicholas A. Sims is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is author of four books on aspects of disarmament.
Author : Jozef Goldblat,Thomas Bernauer,United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UCSD:31822007650195
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biological warfare
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006466887
Author : British Medical Association
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9057024594
Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity traces the historical development of biological weapons and considers the role of health care professionals, scientists, governments, and international agencies in limiting and managing the effects of new biological weapons. In particular, the strengths and weaknesses of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention are examined, and steps that can be taken to minimize the risk of the proliferation of weapons. This report considers whether new biological weapons, made possible by the mapping of the human genome, could be incorporated into the arsenals of states and terrorist organizations. How might the revolution in biotechnology be used to attack the genetic constitution of a national or ethnic group, or enhance the virulence of organizations hostile to human health?
Author : Raymond A. Zilinskas
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1555877613
Recent revelations about Iraqi and Soviet/Russian biological weapons programs and highly publicized events such as the deployment of anthrax and botulinum by the Aum Shinrikyo sect in Japan have made clear the necessity for addressing the issues of biological warfare and defense. In a comprehensive analysis of this imminent threat to global security, fourteen internationally recognized authorities consider the motivations of governments and terrorist groups seeking to acquire biological weapons; managing the consequences of a biological attack; techniques for weapons development; methods for detection of pathogens and toxins; defense against biological weapons; and international efforts to counter their proliferation.