Implementing a Global Chemical Weapons Convention; Proceedings from a 1989 Annual Meeting Symposium January 16, 1989, San Francisco, California: Matthew Meselson, Moderator, Robert Mikulak, Nikita Smidovich, Ruediger Reyels, Edward Tanzman Will D. Carpenter
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Program on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iii, [3], 36, [2] pages. The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control treaty that outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and their precursors. The full name of the treaty is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and it is administered by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands. The treaty entered into force in 1997. The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the large-scale use, development, production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons. Very limited production for research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes is still permitted. The main obligation of member states under the convention is to effect this prohibition, as well as the destruction of all current chemical weapons. All destruction activities must take place under OPCW verification. In the early 1980s, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Council issued several resolutions calling for the U.S. to limit and reduce its reliance upon weapons of mass destruction. In 1981, the AAAS Board of Directors established a Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security. The program aimed to enhance public and expert understanding of issues related to the threat of nuclear war and to reduce that threat. Activities included a verification project, an annual colloquium on science and security, seminars, and publications. Matthew Stanley Meselson (born May 24, 1930) is a geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University. Since 1963 he has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control, has served as a consultant on this subject to various government agencies. Meselson worked with Henry Kissinger under the Nixon administration to convince President Nixon to renounce biological weapons, suspend chemical weapons production, and support an international treaty prohibiting the acquisition of biological agents for hostile purposes, which in 1972 became known as the Biological Weapons Convention. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Matthew Meselson, Chemical Weapons Convention, Robert Mikulak, Verification, Nikita Smidovich, Ruediger Reyels, Edward Tanzman, Disarmament, Arms Control, Will Carpenter, Chemical Industry.
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