Biological Weapons Convention

For a recent treatment of such matters in the context of the Biological Weapons Convention, see Iris Hunger, Ohne Vertrauen keine Kontrolle - zur Rolle der Vertrauens-bildung in der Evolution des Biowaffen-KontroUregimes (dissertation. Technical University Darmstadt, 2003). 

It is worth noting that the aborted Verification Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), in its chairman s draft of 2001, also contained an inspection system, called a clarification visit , which is comparable to the complementary access in the Additional Protocol of the lAEA. This clarification visit system was also designed to fill the gap between the declaration-based transparency visit and the challenge-type investigation . 

Interview with Christopher Park, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, Bureau of Arms Control, US Department of State (16 April 2004). 

The 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (Biological Weapons Convention - BWC) ... 

BWC-IS Biological Weapons Convention-Implementation Support Unit... 

On this latter point see T. Bernauer, Verification of Compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention Developing Countries Between Passive Participation and Obstruction, in Oliver Thranert (ed.), The Verification of the Biological Weapons Convention Problems and Perspectives, Report No.50 (Bonn Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1992), pp.55-67. 

This characterization follows T. Toth, Time to wrap up, in The Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions Bulletin, 46, 1999, 1-3. 

G. S. Pearson, The Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of states parties, The CBW Conventions Bulletin, 66, December 2004, pp.21-34, quote on p.33. 

M. R. Dando, V. Nathanson and M. Darvell, The impact of biotechnology, The British Medical Association (ed.), Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity (Amsterdam Harwood Academic Publishers), 1999, pp.33-51 K. Nixdorff et al., Biotechnology and the Biological Weapons Convention (Munster Agenda Verlag, 2003). 

G. S. Pearson, Security and oversight of pathogenic microorganisms and toxins, Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions Bulletin, 60, 2003, 6-15. 

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

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