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The Prevention of CBW
ISBN 391-00204-X
1971
Almqvist & Wiksell
This book presents a discussion of possible measures that might be adopted to prevent future CBW. The volume describes steps that might be taken to strengthen the legal prohibition of CBW, and the problems and possibilities, including those of verification, involved in the negotiation of CB disarmament.
All six volumes of The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare are available below:
- Volume I. The Rise of CB Weapons [PDF]
- Volume II. CB Weapons Today [PDF]
- Volume III. CBW and the Law of War [PDF]
- Volume IV. CB Disarmament Negotiations, 1920–1970 [PDF]
- Volume V. Technical Aspects of Early Warning and Verification [PDF]
- Volume VI. The Prevention of CBW [PDF]
Table of contents
1. Strengthening the existing prohibition of CBW
2. The case for CB disarmament
3. CB disarmament
Appendix 1. The claims that CB weapons are less inhumane than other weapons
Appendix 2. Verification of CB disarmament
Appendix 3. The CB weapons controls of the Western European Union Armaments Control Agency
Appendix 4. Investigations of the use of chemical and biological weapons
Appendix 5. List of states which have signed, ratified, acceded or succeeded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol
Appendix 6. Major documents relating to CB disarmament
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)/EDITORS
Robert Neild was SIPRI's founding Director from 1966–71.