Biological and Chemical Weapons

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROLIFERATION CONCERNS

The Henry L. Stimson Center Cooperative Nonproliferation Program

Biological Weapons Agents

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

• Text of the convention
• BWC Signatories and Ratifications
• BWC Sixth Review Conference (November 2006)
  
• Compliance Through Science: US Pharmaceutical Industry Experts on a Strengthened Bioweapons Nonproliferation Regime. Stimson Center Report No. 48
• House of Cards: The Pivotal Importance of a Technically Sound BWC Monitoring Protocol. Stimson Center Report No. 37

Russia

• Major Facilities of the Former Soviet Biological Warfare Complex
• Grant Channels to Former Soviet Weaponeers
• Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program
• Toxic Archipelago: Preventing Proliferation from the Former Soviet Chemical and Biological Weapons Complexes. Stimson Center Report No. 32

United States

• History of US Biological Warfare Program
• National Security and Corporate Fairness Under the Biological Weapons Convention Act
• Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989
• Domestic Preparedness

Biological Weapons Proliferation Concerns
Past Congressional Testimonies

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