Eighteen Nation Committee

Secondly progress towards the control of chemical weapons has been extremely slow. Under United Nations auspices various committees, based in Geneva, originally the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament now the Conference on Disarmament, have been engaged in seeking a chemical weapons convention... 

Draft Convention for the Prohibition of Biological Methods of Warfare with Associated Draft Security Council Resolution tabled by the United Kingdom in the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament in Geneva on 10 July, 1969 , Cmnd. 4113 (1968-9) liv. 

In 1972, following two years of additional negotiation, the BTWC was complete. The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, which grew out of the Eighteen-Nation Committee, was ready to submit the text of the document to the United Nations General Assembly. The key provisions of the Convention were as follows ... 

The Conference on Disarmament is the current name of the multilateral negotiating body which has been variously known as the Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament (TNCD), the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament (ENDC), the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD), and the Committee on Disarmament (CD). In the following text, the CD is referred to by the name which was current during the period under discussion. 

See for example the Soviet proposal submitted to the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee in March 1962, as quoted in SIPRI, The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Volume IV CB Disarmament Negotiations, 1920-1970 (Stockholm Almquist Wiksel, 1971), pp.23Iff. 

Early and current efforts originating in the United States for standardization of chemical nomenclature on both a national and international level are reviewed. Committees sponsored by the National Research Council, which is the official organization for dealing with the IUPAC, and ACS committees correlate work to achieve consistency. These committees, with names and addresses of chairmen, are listed. British-U. S. cooperation on standardizing nomenclature, which resulted in joint adoption of ten rules in 1923, has been renewed. Nomenclature information is published in ACS periodicals and in eighteen pamphlets which are available from Chemical Abstracts. 

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