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Chemical and Biological Weapons
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991To the Editor. —War in the Middle East has increased fears that chemical or biological weapons (CBW) might be used in battle. Iraq's "supposed use" (Marwick's term 1 ) of mustard gas and tabun, a nerve gas, has been well documented by medical teams from the United Nations 2 and portrayed vividly in a recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary ...
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When is a Chemical Weapon Not a Chemical Weapon?
The Journal of Criminal Law, 2017This article seeks to highlight the difficulties encountered in the interpretation of the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons in the Chemical Weapons Act 1996. In particular, the application of ‘the act’ against individuals in the domestic criminal courts as opposed to larger entities and nation states.
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2007
AbstractThis chapter describes chemical weapons, including the history of their development and use in World War I and beyond, classification of chemical weapons, and international control of chemical weapons. It also describes potential chemical weapons of the future.
Herman Spanjaard, Oxana Khabib
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AbstractThis chapter describes chemical weapons, including the history of their development and use in World War I and beyond, classification of chemical weapons, and international control of chemical weapons. It also describes potential chemical weapons of the future.
Herman Spanjaard, Oxana Khabib
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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention
1996During the late 1980’s the public became generally aware of the fact that another chemical time bomb is ticking: the chemical weapon (CW) munitions which were dumped after World War II in the Baltic and the North Sea. At the end of World War II, the Allies were faced with the problem of how to get rid of more than 300,000 tonnes of CW munitions which ...
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The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention
1997The conclusion of negotiations on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their Destruction (CWC), in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in August 1992, brought to an end 20 years of negotiations on a comprehensive treaty to eliminate chemical weapons.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and old and abandoned chemical weapons
1997Abstract There is general agreement that the destruction of chemical weapons owned or possessed by a State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention after 1 January 1946 will be a major focus of the Convention in the first 10 years after its entry into force. Destruction must be completed within 10 years.
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