Conversion of Former BTW Facilities

The development, production, stockpiling and use in war of biological and toxin weapons are prohibited by international law. Although not explicitly stated, the two treaties outlawing such activities, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972, prohibit the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Geissler, Erhard, Gazsó, Lajos G. (Author), Buder, Ernst (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1, Disarmament Technologies
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Conversion of Former BTW Facilities-Questions and Problems
  • Conversion of Chemical Weapons Production Facilities under the Chemical Weapons Convention
  • Biotechnology in a Peaceful World Economy
  • Redirecting Biological Warfare Capacity to International Health Biotechnology
  • Conversion of BTW Facilities: Lessons from German History
  • Challenges of BW Control and Defense during Arms Reduction
  • Conversion of Past Biological Weapons Facilities: Lessons from Western Conversion
  • Development of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing at Fort Detrick, Maryland
  • Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Aspects of Conversion
  • The Possibilities and Limitations of Biological Weapons Conversion: Personnel and Facilities
  • Controllling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blue print for U.S.-Russian Cooperation. A Report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense
  • The Need for International Cooperation to Provide Transparency and to Strengthen the BWC
  • Redirection of BW Experts in the Framework of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC)
  • Conversion of BW Facilities in Kazakstan
  • Facilitating the Conversion of BTW Facilities through International Technical Cooperation: BTWC Implications
  • The Ad Hoc Group: Past Biological Weapons Facilities