Biological Warfare Convention

Despite ricin s extreme toxicity and utility as an agent of chemical/biological warfare, it is extremely difficult to limit the production of the toxin. Therefore, ricin is currently monitored as a Schedule 1 toxic chemical under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,... 

R. Trapp, Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention On-Site Inspection in Chemical Industry Facilities, SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Studies, No. 14 (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1993), p.8. 

The Biological Weapons Convention did not attempt to restrict or ban germ warfare research, merely the development, production and... 

DaSilva E. J., Biological warfare, bioterrorism, biodefence and the biological and toxin weapons convention Electronic, Journal of Biotechnology, 2(3), 99-129, 1999. 

We have known for many years that the Soviet Union maintained an offensive biological warfare program in violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which they initiated and signed without reservation. This knowledge has been reported to the U.S. Congress and the American public since 1984, and our government has repeatedly raised this subject, first with the Soviet leadership, and more recently with the current Russian leadership.5... 

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