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Legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol: one hundred years of treaties and debates on chemical and biological weapons [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThis essay examines the legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons. This multinational treaty was an important milestone in the history of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass ...
Walter E. Grunden, Olli H. Tuovinen
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US rejects biological weapons convention protocol
BMJ, 2001 An interagency team of the Bush administration drawn from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Commerce Department, the Energy Department, and intelligence agencies has completed a critical review of the enforcement protocol of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. The convention, banning the use of biological weapons, was ratified by 143 nations
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Problems of Biosafety in Current International Law
Московский журнал международного права, 2022 INTRODUCTION. The presented article is devoted to an extremely curious and, without exaggeration, urgent topic. The authors seek to understand the content and legal concept of biosafety in International Law.
A. A. Danalya, E. E. Gulyaeva
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Development of and prospects for the biological weapons convention
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022 Biological weapons are used in wars to wound or kill people or animals and destroy crops with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, as well as toxins and other biologically active substances.
Liang Huigang +4 more
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Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 In this report, we identify some of the key technical and political challenges currently facing the broader Chemical and Biological Weapon (CBW) regime- with a particular emphasis on major forthcoming diplomatic meetings.
Brett Edwards +6 more
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Rethinking biosecurity in the 21st century: An enhanced role for civil society
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2023 In this paper, we briefly discuss the historical issues concerning the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and analyse the current situation after the COVID-19 pandemic with emphasis on the new developments at 9th Review Conference of the BTWC.
Lijun Shang, Malcolm Dando
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A key role for scientists in strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 It is not easy to be optimistic about international security at the present time, but 9th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention in December 2022 agreed a renewed effort to strengthen the Convention after decades of stagnation.
Lijun Shang +4 more
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Specifics pertaining to the implementation of international conventions related to civil aviation into national legislations [PDF]
INCAS Bulletin, 2021 The paper considers the implementation of the Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation and the Protocol supplementing The Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft into the ...
Borys LEONOV +4 more
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The creation of a contagious H5N1 influenza virus: implications for the education of life scientists [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2014 The paper contends that the ongoing controversy surrounding the creation of a contagious H5N1 influenza virus has already exposed the severe limitations of the possibility of preventing the hostile misuse of the life sciences by dint of oversight of ...
T. Novossiolova, M. Minehata, M. Dando
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BIOTERRORISM: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS REGULATIONS ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW
Lampung Journal of International Law, 2021 The biological weapon used as a terrorism facility (bioterrorism) could endanger the lives of mankind. Besides its purpose of mass destruction, this weapon has been banned from being used towards the human.
Yaksa Elyasa
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