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Title

Protection pending : changing the lock on Pandora's box / Christian Enemark.

Author

Enemark, Christian

Publication

Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security

Description

ix, 43 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

"Until recently, the threat of biological weapons (BW) has received little international attention compared with other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Concern about nuclear weapons (NW), and more recently about chemical weapons (CW) has dominated efforts in non-proliferation research and policy-making. Arguably, the great moral abhorrence attached to BW has tended to narrow what public discussion has occurred on this sensitive topic. Today, the threat of BW is real and yet there is no means of knowing whether a country is in breach of the international ban on these horrific weapons. This paper is premised on a determination to give the problem of BW proliferation the attention it deserves. A mere description of the threat of BW will not suffice. This work sets out to investigate an important means by which the threat to global security posed by BW could be substantially reduced: the conclusion of a workable verification Protocol to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)"--ACDIS website.

Series Statement

ACDIS occasional paper

Uniform Title

ACDIS occasional paper

Alternative Title

Changing the lock on Pandora's box

Subject

• Armas biológicas > Control
• Armes biologiques > Vérification
• Biological Warfare
• Biological arms control
• Biological warfare
• Biological weapons
• Convention sur l'interdiction de la mise au point, de la fabrication et du stockage des armes bactériologiques (biologiques) ou à toxines et sur leur destruction (1972)
• Guerra biológica
• Terrorism > Prevention
• Terrorismo > Prevención

Note

• "January 2000."
• "Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-43).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The problem of biological weapons proliferation -- Can the biological weapons convention be strengthened? -- How should the biological weapons convention be strengthened?

OCLC

44057294

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library