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Category Archives: Biological and Chemical Weapons
Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Use: What’s Next?
By Daryl G. Kimball, Greg Thielmann, and Kelsey Davenport The U.S. intelligence community “assesses with varying degrees of confidence, that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically, the chemical agent sarin,” according to … Continue reading
Posted in Biological and Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Middle East
Tagged Chemical weapons, OPCW, Syria, Syria Chemical Weapons
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Don’t neglect the Biological Weapons Convention
By Oliver Meier The December 2011 review conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) demonstrated the danger of the bioweapons ban drifting into irrelevance. Standstill was the motto of the meeting. Only incremental improvements on some procedural issues were achieved. … Continue reading
France and Germany agree on truce over nuclear arms control committee as NATO works on Deterrence and Defense Posture Review
By Oliver Meier On July 7, in a rare show of unity on nuclear issues between France and Germany, the ambassadors of both countries sent a joint proposal to NATO members on the future of the new Weapons of Mass … Continue reading
How does the Middle East Crisis Affect the 2012 WMDFZ Conference?
By Alfred Nurja This month’s issue of Arms Control Today carries an insightful article by Anne Penketh that reports on the potential impact that unrest in the Middle East may have on international efforts to host a 2012 regional conference on a … Continue reading
Posted in Biological and Chemical Weapons, Iran, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, Regions
Tagged Free Zone, Middle East unrest, NPT
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What about Egypt’s WMD?
By Nik Gebben If Egypt’s political future remains uncertain, its nonproliferation future is even more so. The only known quantity on this issue is former IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, who could potentially help steer Cairo in a stronger direction on nonproliferation. … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Middle East, North Africa, Nuclear Weapons, Regions
Tagged Egypt, nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, WMD
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Separating Fact from Bush Administration Fiction About Iraq’s Suspected WMD (Again)
By Daryl G. Kimball As he pushes sales of his memoir, George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is trying, once again, to spin the facts about the “knowns” and the “unknowns” about Iraq’s suspected nuclear, chemical, biological … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons
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Unanticipated Benefits of Arms Control
By ACA Intern Matt Sugrue A recently published “proof of concept” by a joint USAMRIID (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease) and AVI BioPharma team shows the possibility for developing a vaccine against the Marburg and Ebola filoviruses. … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Weapons
Tagged Biological Weapons, Biological Weapons Convention, BWC, Geneva Convention
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