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Chemical and biological weapons
Publications
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Biorisk Governance: Advancing Biosecurity Education for Life Scientists
5 August 2025
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Focus and Function of BWC Verification
5 December 2024
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Possible Models of BWC Verification
29 November 2024
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Voluntary Transparency Initiatives: The Case of Peer Review Exercises in the Context of the BWC
19 August 2024
Weapons of Mass Destruction
2023 Biorisks, Biosecurity and Biological Disarmament Conference Report
9 July 2024
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Reflections on Review Conferences: the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention
12 December 2023
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Verifying the BWC: A Primer
17 October 2023
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Preparing for Success at the Fifth Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention: A Guide to the Issues
6 February 2023
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Assessing the SecBio Platform Proposal for the Biological Weapons Convention
7 December 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Stakeholder Perspectives on the Biological Weapons Convention
6 December 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Adding Novichok Nerve Agents to the CWC Annex on Chemicals: a Technical Fix and Its Implications for the Chemical Weapons Prohibition Regime
27 June 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Back to the Future for Verification in the Biological Disarmament Regime?
13 June 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Potential Outcomes of the Ninth BWC Review Conference
21 March 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Options for Article X of the Biological Weapons Convention
3 February 2022
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Preparing for Success at the Ninth Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review Conference
1 April 2021
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Improving Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention: The 2007-2010 Intersessional Process
6 October 2011
Cross-Programme
Disarmament Forum: Science, Technology and the CBW Regimes
1 January 2005
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Project Coast: Apartheid’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme
20 December 2002
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Disarmament Forum: The CWC Review Conference
1 December 2002
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Disarmament Forum: Biological Weapons: From the BWC to Biotech
10 January 2000
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Projected Chemical Weapons Convention: A Guide to the Negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament
1 October 1990
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