Britain Weapons Convention

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Statement by Dr Denis MacShane MP, p. 5. 

See, e.g., Republic of Bulgaria, National Measures for Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, RC-l/NAT.ll, 28 April 2003 The People s Republic of China, Report on the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in China, RC-1/ NAT.2, 15 April 2003 The Republic of Cuba, Methods Adopted by the Republic of Cuba to Ensure Compliance with the Provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, RC-1/NAT.4, 5 May 2003 The Kingdom of Sweden, National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, RC-1/NAT.27, 8 May 2003 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, National Implementation of the Cherrtical Weapons Convention, RC-1/NAT.3, 15 April 2003 United States Delegation, CWC Review Conference National Implementation Measures, 3 March 2003 (on file with the author). 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 1971-1975 for a history of Britain s disarmament see Walker 2012 see ako Brian Bahner and Catriona McLeish s AHRC-funded project Understanding Biological Disarmament The Historical Context of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) . 

Van Courtland Moon 2006, pp. g Biological Weapons Convention 1972 (Article i) for a recent study of Britain s policy of disarmament since the mid 1950S see Walker 2012 see ako Sims 1986 Sims 2001 Sims 2009. 

Since the war, Britain has categorically stated that she has never possessed any biological weapons. As recently as 1980, at the Review Conference of the Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons, the British delegation firmly stated The United Kingdom has never possessed and has not acquired microbial or other biological agents and toxins in quantities which could be employed for weapon purposes. 38 On at least two other occasions in 1980- on 5 March and 11 March - the same assurance was repeated. 

Draft Convention by the United Kingdom on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and on their destruction , document CCD/512 (1974), Cmnd. 7269 (1977-8) ix, pp. 186-91 N. A. Sims, Britain, Chemical Weapons and Disarmament , ADIU Report, vol. 2, no. 3 (July-August 1980) p. 2. 

As a Member State of the European Community, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will implement the provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, in accordance with its obligations arising from the rules of the Treaties estabhshing the European Communities to the extent that such rules are applicable. ... 

More interestingly, the conventional narrative of Britain and atomic weapons dates the decision to go ahead with the design and construction of a bomb to a meeting of a cabinet committee in January 1947. This committee had a relatively restricted membership Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President Viscount Addison, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and John Wilmot, Minister of Supply. 

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