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Models of scientific and technological review for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

The Nonproliferation Review, 2019
ABSTRACTScience and technology (S&T) review is key to anticipating developments in the life sciences that may benefit or run contrary to the aims of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention...
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CHAPTER 16. Implications for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

2018
Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) remains the most significant dispute between States Parties to the Convention. Convergence in science and technology will shape this debate, but how States Parties respond to the challenges of compliance and verification involves legal, political, and administrative issues, as much as ...
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Challenges to Disarmament Regimes: The Case of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Global Society, 2001
A disarmament treaty is an agent of change in the international security environment in its own right. Disarmament requires the total elimination of the weaponry under consideration. At minimum, the agreement could therefore be expected to remove the threat posed by that weaponry from the overall threat equation.
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Best Practices: Advising the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention about Trends in Science and Technology

2010
Advances in the life sciences and in enabling technologies affect the operations of both the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Both treaty regimes have developed mechanisms to review scientific and technological advances in order to ensure that their future implementation will not be negatively affected by ...
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Technologies for Monitoring the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: An Emerging Consensus?

2000
As official concerns over the possible proliferation of biological weapons have increased, they have been paralleled by efforts to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). These efforts began with the introduction of a system of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) at the second five-yearly Review Conference in 1986 and the ...
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Maximizing the Security and Development Benefits from the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

2002
Preface. Achieving Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention G.S. Pearson. Part I: Outbreaks of Disease. Reporting Outbreaks of Human Diseases J. Woodhall. Reporting Outbreaks of Animal Diseases M. Hugh-Jones. Reporting Outbreaks of Plant Diseases P. Rogers.
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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

2023
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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Preventing the Weaponization of CNS-acting Chemicals

The chapter analyses the utility of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) as a means to prevent or at least constrain development, acquisition or use by State and non-State actors of CNS-acting weapons employing toxins and bioregulators or their synthetic analogues.
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The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

2004
Preface. The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the BTWC G.S. Pearson. I:- The Requirement to Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention T. Toth. A Short History of Biological Warfare and Weapons M. Wheelis. Critical Aspects of Biotechnology in Relation to Proliferation K. Nixdorff, et al.
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Maximizing the Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation Under The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

2002
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention1 which opened for signature in 1972 and entered into force in 1975 currently has 144 States Parties and 18 Signatory States.2 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 ...
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