CBW Events -- Contemporary Activities
Research on historical aspects of chemical and biological warfare issues can put current events into a context from which many lessons may be learned. In addition, careful recording of events as they happen can assist in better understanding of the development of policy in the future.
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CBW Events papers and presentations
Daily reports from the second Review Conference for the Chemical Weapons Convention (April 2008) -- see CWC reports page.
Daily reports from meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention (in conjunction with the BioWeapons Prevention Project)
Other recent external publications
- "The Second Chemical Weapons Convention Review Conference", The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no 79, June 2008, pp 1-5.
- "A New Lease of Life: The 6th Review Conference of the BTWC and Beyond" (December 2007), BWPP Occasional Paper no 3
- "Rising Out of the Doldrums: Report on the BWC Review Conference", Disarmament Diplomacy, Spring 2007 [http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd84/84bwc.htm]
- (with John Hart and Frida Kuhlau), "Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control", SIPRI Yearbook 2006, (Stockholm/Oxford: SIPRI/Oxford University Press, 2006), pp 707-31 [http://www.sipri.org/contents/cbwarfare/pdfs/cbw-yb2006.pdf]
(last update, RG, 9 December 2008)