Dr John Hart

Associate Senior Researcher

Dr John Hart

Dr John Hart was an Associate Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. Previously he was the Head of the Chemical and Biological Security Project within the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. He joined SIPRI in 2001.

Subject expertise

Chemical and biological weapons; arms control and disarmament; verification; secrecy policy; non-state actor developments; military history

Regional expertise

Russia

Languages

English, Russian

Education

Doctor of Military Sciences (DScMil), National Defence University (Helsinki)

Affiliations

International Institute for International Affairs (IISS), Member
Swedish Institute of international Affairs (UI), Member

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Strengthening the ban on chemical weapons: The case of Syria (Essay, February 2018 )
Celebrating a milestone: Russia completes the destruction of chemical weapons stockpile (Expert comment, September 2017 )
The G20 Summit and chemical weapons in Syria (Expert comment, July 2017 )
Syria’s chemical weapons and protection against their use: a brief overview (Expert comment, July 2012 )
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—approaching a mid-life crisis? (Essay, November 2011 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

The Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Policy and Planning Aspects (April 2013) 35 pp.
Hart, J. and Trapp, R., Science and Technology and their Impacts on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (December 2011)
Grip, L. and Hart, J., The Use of Chemical Weapons in the 1935–36 Italo-Ethiopian War (October 2009)
Non-compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention: Lessons from and for Iraq2003) 51 pp.
Maintaining the Effectiveness of the Chemical Weapons Convention (October 2002) 19 pp.
Biotechnology and the Future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (November 2001) 12 pp.
Chemical Weapon Destruction in Russia: Political, Legal and Technical Aspects1998) 161 pp.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (April 1997) 10 pp.

8. Chemical and biological security threats (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
13. Chemical and biological security threats (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
13. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
1. Aspects of the conflict in Syria (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
8. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
8. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2013)
9. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2012)
9. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2011)
10. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
10. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2009)
9. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
13. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
6. Transparency in the arms life cycle (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
14. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
13. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
14. Libya’s renunciation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and ballistic missiles (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
16. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2004)
16. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2003)
12. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2002)
11. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1998)
13. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1997)

External publications

Hart, J., 'See JIM find, find JIM find...John Hart of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) considers the OPCW-UN joint investigative mechanism', CBRNe World (Feb. 2017), pp. 43-46
'Moving day: John Hart describes the 2016 international operation to remove Libya's chemicals', CBRNe World (Dec. 2016), pp. 51-53
'The smoking gun of non-compliance, John Hart of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on investigations into chemical weapons usage in Syria and Iraq', CBRNe World (Dec. 2015), pp. 17-18 & 20
Hart, John, 'L’évaluation des activités liées à l’armement dans la vérification de l’Arms control multilatéral: aspects théoriques et opérationnels’, [The Evaluation of activities related to weapons in multilateral arms control verification: theoretical and operational aspects], pp. 123–152 in Georges-Henri Soutou (ed.) Stratégique: Maîtrise des armaments et désarmement, no. 108 (Apr. 2015). Transl. Olivier Zajec
Toprak, S., Ersoy, G., Hart, J. and Clevestig, P., ‘The Pathology of lethal exposure to the riot control agents: towards a forensics-based methodology for determining misuse’, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2015). [accepted for publication on 28 Nov. 2014; published online 9 Dec. 2014].
Hart, J. and Trapp, R., 'Science, technology, and the Biological Weapons Convention', Arms Control Today, vol. 42, (Oct. 2012), pp. 15-21
Hart, J., ‘Background to selected environmental and human health effects of chemical warfare agents’, eds O. Hutzinger, D. Barceló and A. Kostianoy, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry vol. 3: Anthropogenic Compounds (Springer, 2009).
Hart, J. and Fedchenko, V., ‘WMD inspection and verification regimes: political and technical challenges’, eds N. E. Busch and D. H. Joyner, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: the Future of International Non-Proliferation Policy (University of Georgia Press, 2009).
Hart, J., 'Looking back: the continuing legacy of old and abandoned chemical weapons', Arms Control Today vol 38, no. 2 (Mar. 2008), pp. 55-59
Hart, J., ‘An introduction to the political and technical challenges posed by sea-dumped chemical and conventional weapons: the case of the Baltic Sea’, Briefing Paper no. EP/EXPO/B/SEDE/FWC/2006–10/Lot4/16, European Parliament, Directorate General External Policies of the Union, Dec. 2008.
Garrett, B. C. and Hart, J., Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare (Scarecrow Press, 2007).
Hart, J., ‘The Soviet biological weapons program’, in Eds Dando, Malcolm, Rózsa, Lajos and Wheelis, Mark, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006), pp. 132–56.
Croddy, E., Perez-Armendariz, C. and Hart, J., Chemical and Biological Warfare: A comprehensive Survey for Concerned Citizens (Copernicus Books: New York, NY 2002), 306 pp.