The Danger to the Chemical Weapons Convention from Incapacitating Chemicals

Ye

The Strengthened BTWC Protocol: Implications for the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry

Ye

Raising Awareness: A Hippocratic Oath for Life Sciences

Ye

Advances in Neuroscience and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

This paper investigates the potential threat to the prohibition of the hostile misuse of the life sciences embodied in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention from the rapid advances in the field of neuroscience. The paper describes how the implications of advances in science and technology are considered at the Five Year Review Conferences of the Convention and how State Parties have developed their appreciations since the First Review Conference in 1980. The ongoing advances in neurosciences are then assessed and their implications for the Convention examined. It is concluded that State Parties should consider a much more regular and systematic review system for such relevant advances in science and technology when they meet at the Seventh Review Conference in late 2011, and that neuroscientists should be much more informed and engaged in these processes of protecting their work from malign misuse

Biomedical Community and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

YesNegotiations to find a legally binding way to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of 1972 [1]are in danger of failing. The crisis was precipitated during the current round of talks, now in its final week in Geneva, when the US, alone amongst the negotiating States, rejected the text of a protocol that has taken six and a half years to negotiate

The emerging protocol: An integrated reliable and effective regime

Ye

National Measures to Implement the Prohibitions in the BTWC

Ye

Contributions from Non-Governmental Organizations: The Contributions of the Department of Peace Studies of the University of Bradford to Strengthening the BTWC Regime

Ye

The UK's Search for an Incapacitating ('Non-Lethal') Chemical Agent in the 1960s

Ye

In-Depth Implementation of the BTWC: Education and Outreach

Ye