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The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Role of Engineers and Scientists [PDF]

Kemija u Industriji, 2010
Chemical weapons, like all military technology, are associated with activities of scientists and engineers. However, chemical weapons differ from any other military technology because they were invented, and their first mass use directly developed by ...
Matoušek, J
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Chemical Disarmament: Current Problems in Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention [PDF]

Kemija u Industriji, 2006
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is briefly characterised by stressing its main pillars, such as verified destruction ofCWstockpiles and destruction/conversion ofCWproduction facilities (CWPFs), verified non-production of CW by the chemical ...
Matoušek, J.
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Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on riot control agents in connection to the Chemical Weapons Convention. [PDF]

RSC Adv, 2018
Compounds that cause powerful sensory irritation to humans were reviewed by the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in response to requests in 2014 and 2017 by the OPCW Director-General to ...
Timperley CM, Forman JE, Åas P, Abdollahi M, Benachour D, Al-Amri AS, Baulig A, Becker-Arnold R, Borrett V, Cariño FA, Curty C, Gonzalez D, Geist M, Kane W, Kovarik Z, Martínez-Álvarez R, Mikulak R, Fusaro Mourão NM, Neffe S, De Souza Nogueira E, Ramasami P, Raza SK, Rubaylo V, Saeed AEM, Takeuchi K, Tang C, Trifirò F, Mauritz van Straten F, Suárez AG, Waqar F, Vanninen PS, Zafar-Uz-Zaman M, Vučinić S, Zaitsev V, Zina MS, Holen S, Izzati FN.   +36 more
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Drugs as Chemical Weapons: Past and Perspectives

Toxics, 2023
The emergence of modern chemical weapons and chemical warfare is traditionally associated with World War I, but the use of poisons in the military has its roots deep in the past.
Vladimír Pitschmann, Zdeněk Hon
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Federal Directorate for Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons – 30th Anniversary

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The Russian Federation has ratified the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, and thereby reaffirmed its international obligations assumed in the field of chemical ...
V. P. Kapashin, V. G. Mandych, S. I. Samarin, I. N. Isaev, I. V. Kovalenko, V. L. Veriga   +5 more
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Chemical warfare agents

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010
Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
K Ganesan, S K Raza, R Vijayaraghavan
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Meeting the Challenges of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Strengthening the Chemical and Biological Disarmament and Non-proliferation Regimes

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, Tatyana Novossiolova, Michael Crowley, Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dando, Lijun Shang, Lijun Shang   +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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Overall View of Chemical and Biochemical Weapons

Toxins, 2014
This article describes a brief history of chemical warfare, which culminated in the signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It describes the current level of chemical weapons and the risk of using them.
Vladimír Pitschmann
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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, Lijun Shang, Lincoln Sheff, Malcolm Dando, Malcolm Dando   +4 more
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