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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Protocol Negotiations

Pearson, Graham S.
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Whitby, Simon M.
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2000
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BTWC, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Protocol, Biological Warfare, Negotiations
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© 2000 Whitby, S.M. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk).
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Abstract
Professor Graham S. Pearson discusses the scope of the international legal prohibition against biological warfare and provides an overview of the status of negotiations, currently in the end-game phase, to agree a legally-binding verification Protocol to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
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BTWC Video Briefings, Distance Learning Module 1, No. 2. 2000. [Video]. Summary of the main points of BTWC Evaluation Paper 22: "The US Rejection of the Composite Protocol: A Huge Mistake Based on Illogical Assessment". Presented by Pearson, G.S. and filmed by Whitby, S. Bradford, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford.
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