National security and arms control in the age of biotechnology the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC - the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970's meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier. That treaty banned the use of...
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Lanham
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
2013
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Table of Contents:
- The road to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
- Biotechnology and its implications for the BWC
- Ten reasons why the BWC matters
- Into the abyss : the articles of the convention
- The BWC Review Conferences (RevCon) and special reviews
- To verify or not to verify
- The future of the BWC
- Conclusions and the way forward