Fr. 157.20

The Future of Biological Weapons

English · Hardback

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The know-how and materials required to produce biological warfare agents are the same as those required for medical and veterinary products; biological warfare technology is quickly spreading across the globe. In this new study, Barend ter Haar argues that a policy of nonproliferation might slow down the current trend toward worldwide deployment of biological weapons, but it is ultimately doomed without a strengthened ban on them.

Ter Haar discusses the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, which did not categorically prohibit activities leading to biological weapons and failed to provide confidence-building measures and allegation procedures. He evaluates the confidence measures added in the 1986 Second Review Conference, and demonstrates how they were neglected by some countries. Ter Haar concludes that the Convention measures are almost unverifiable and proposes a stronger, universal ban that includes improved procedures, regular consultative meetings, extended information exchange restrictions, routine verification, challenge inspections, and other measures. This study is an important resource for professionals, students, and scholars of diplomacy, disarmament, international relations, and the protection of the environment.

List of contents










Foreword
Summary
Introduction
A Short History of Biological Arms Control
The Current State of the Biological Weapons Convention
The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Model for the Biological Weapons Convention
What Can Be Done?
Appendixes
Index


About the author










BAREND ter HAAR is a diplomat with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Netherlands delegation to NATO. He has written numerous articles on disarmament and arms control for the enforcement of international environmental agreements.

Product details

Authors Barend Ter Haar, Barend J. Ter Haar
Publisher Praeger
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.1991
 
EAN 9780275941000
ISBN 978-0-275-94100-0
No. of pages 216
Dimensions 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
Weight 508 g
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law

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