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ASA and the CBMTS
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Ed.Note: John Hart of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is well noted and respected as a researcher and analyst across the full spectrum of CBNRE. He is a member of the CBMTS and an ASA Correspondent for Science and Technology.
Russia’s Chemical Weapon Destruction Program: an Update
by John Hart
SIPRI*
Russia has the largest declared chemical weapon (CW) stockpile, consisting of approximately 40 000 agent metric tons of which about 4 percent have been destroyed to date. The 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention, CWC) provides the main impetus for destroying the stockpile since it requires the States Parties to the CWC to destroy any CW stockpiles that they may possess no later than 29 April 2012.
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Ed. Note: From Bioterrorism to agroterrorism the threat can take many forms and in this paper, which was presented at the CBMTS-Industry IV, Professors Hincal explore the threat and the role of biotechnology.
GM Technology Offers Opportunities for Possible Bioterrorism
Filiz Hincal1,3, A. Atilla Hincal2
University of Hacettepe, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology1 and Department of Pharmaceutical Technology2 , Hacettepe Drug and Poison Information Center3, ANKARA, 06100 — TURKEY
INTRODUCTION
It was not long ago that a panel of outside experts told the CIA that advances in technology due to genetic research could produce the worst known disease and the most frightening biological weapons.
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an inside look at ASA 05-6
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