Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons provides a comprehensive survey of the scientific, military, humanitarian, legal and political issues associated with the development and use of incapacitating biochemical weapons.
Statement of Dr. Marie Chevrier at the 2007 BWC Meeting of States Parties
Thank you, Ambassador Khan for your invitation to address the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and to participate in this Round Table Exercise. I am here in my role as Chair of the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation in Washington DC. I wish to thank the members of the Working Group and Dr. Alan Pearson, the director of the project at the Center.
Scientists Working Group Chair Addresses Biological Weapons Convention Meeting
National implementation of the BTWC requires that States Parties implement Article I prohibiting the production, development, acquisition, stockpiling or retention of biological agents and toxins of types and in quantities that have no prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes in their territory or under their control. NGOs have a role to play.
Germs, Viruses, and Secrets: The Silent Proliferation of Bio-Laboratories in the United States
Over the last six years, the Federal government has dramatically increased US research and development activity and infrastructure focused on biological weapons agents.
Safeguarding Synthetics
The damage that might be wrought by some “biohackers” would be much more difficult to deal with than that caused by their computer hacker brethren.
