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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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Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention
International Affairs, 1996The Chemical Weapons Convention will enter intoforce 18o days after ratification by the 65th signatory country, a point that could be reached early in 1996. This article examines the essential underpinnings of the Convention established during the 24 years of its construction and draws attention to theforms and safeguards arrived at by the negotiators ...
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Ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention
Science, 1997International agreements prohibiting chemical weapons began in the 17th century, when the Germans and French agreed to prohibit poison bullets. New chemical toxins and new ways to deliver them have kept treaties to ban such weapons of mass destruction on the diplomatic and security agendas of large and small nations ever since.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention—disarmament, science and technology
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 20142014 marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I—the first war that saw the large-scale use of chemical weapons. Although poisons have been used in warfare for centuries, it was rapid advances in science and engineering and the rise of the modern chemical industry that made the mass production of toxic chemicals possible.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and Preventing the Weaponization of CNS-acting Chemicals
The chapter examines how the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), through its General Purpose Criterion, ensures a comprehensive coverage of substances within its scope incorporating all existing and yet to be discovered or synthesised CNS-acting chemicals – including pharmaceutical chemicals, toxins and bioregulators.openaire +1 more source
The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Worldwide Chemical Industry
2002Given the general Soviet position on verification, and the suspicions of the Cold War era, it is hardly surprising that there was considerable debate about the concept throughout that period of time. In a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute study published in 1977, for example, Andrzej Karkoszka, from Poland, argued that verification had ...
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Conversion of Chemical Weapons Production Facilities Under the Chemical Weapons Convention
1998The primary goal of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) with respect to chemical weapon production facilities (CWPFs) is their destruction. However, there are provisions under the Convention which will allow conversion of CWPFs into: (a) facilities for destruction of chemical weapons (CW); and (b) facilities operating for purposes not prohibited by ...
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Challenges for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Strategic Analysis, 2011Chemical science has a direct relationship with human life. In order to celebrate the value of chemistry, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2011 as the ‘International Year of Chemistry’.
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