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AMDIS in the Chemical Weapons Convention

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2014
The inspection regime under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) requires both the ability to identify low levels of chemical agents, precursors, and decomposition products in complex mixtures while at the same time not exposing the inspection site to the risk of loss of confidential information related to the chemical composition of the sample.
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The destruction of weapons under the chemical weapons convention

Science & Global Security, 1996
As the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) enters into force, countries with stocks of chemical weapons will begin the task of destroying them. In the U.S. whose stockpile consists of approximately 30,000 tons of nerve and blister agents at eight separate sites in the continental United States and at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific, the Army has designed a
Amy E. Smithson, Maureen Lenihan
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CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 1998
With the Senate's recent approval of a bill to implement domestically the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)—a treaty the Senate ratified last year—the U.S. is one step closer to coming into compliance with its treaty obligations. But one step closer is several steps short of actual implementing legislation and treaty compliance.
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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention

1996
During 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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Implementing the chemical weapons convention

Survival, 1994
Bibliografía
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The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention

1997
The 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

1997
Abstract 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, 1996
The 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, 1997
International 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, 2014
2014 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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