Views on Possible Verification Measures for the Biological Weapons Convention

ISBN-13: 9780198291428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 144 str.

S. J. Lundin

Opis

Volume 12 in the SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare Studies series will identify and develop suggestions for verification measures for the BWC, and their possible dual function for verification and confidence-building will also be explored in contributions by ten leading experts in the field number 12 in the will identify and develop suggestions for verification.

Recenzje

'Lundin's edited work is one of the few addressing such issues, primarily from a scientific viewpoint, and is required reading for defence and security, as well as arms control, specialists.' Olivia Bosch, University of Southampton, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn '92

Spis treści

Introduction; Up-dating of the Assessment of the Information Exchanges; Possible Relevance to the BWC of the Suggested Verification provisions of the CWC; Organizational Aspects of Possible Verification Tasks under the BWC; Utilization for Verification Purposes of Protective, Prophylactic, and Therapeutic Efforts under the BWC; Relation to Verification of the Monitoring of BW-Related R & D Activities in Existing High-Containmant Facilities; WHO Health and Epidemic Information as a Basis for Verification Activities; Co-operation of States Parties in the Biological Field under Article X of the BWC in Order to Improve Verification; Nature of the Bio-technology Industry and its Impact on Possible Verification Measures; Summary and Conclusions