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Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons

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  • © 1997

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  1. Nancy Turtle Schulte

    1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1 (ASDT, volume 10)

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Cooperation as a Common Strategic Interest

    1. Cooperation as a Common Strategic Interest

      • Javier Solana
      Pages 1-3

  3. Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons

    1. Toward Peace with Ever-Fewer Weapons

      • Klaus Kinkel
      Pages 5-8

    2. Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons

      • Sergio Balanzino
      Pages 9-10

    3. Disarmament and Conversion

      • Anke Brunn
      Pages 11-12

  4. Status of Implementation of Arms Control Treaties and Voluntary Commitments

    1. Challenges in Reducing the Legacy of the Cold War

      • John D. Holum
      Pages 13-18

    2. French Policy on Arms Control and Disarmament

      • Michel Ferrier
      Pages 19-22

  5. National Perspectives on Cooperation in Disarmament

    1. The Netherlands: Participation in Chemical Weapons Destruction

      • Joris J. C. Voorhoeve
      Pages 23-24

    2. Norwegian Perspectives and Participation in Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Disarmament

      • Siri Bjerke
      Pages 25-28

    3. U.S. National Perspectives on Cooperation in Disarmament: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

      • Harold P. Smith
      Pages 29-32

    4. Belarus: Problems of Disarmament and Arms Control

      • Andrei Sannikov
      Pages 33-35

    5. The French-Russian Programme for Nuclear Weapons Dismantlement: The “AIDA Plan”

      • Francis Orsini
      Pages 37-38

    6. German Perspectives on Cooperation in Disarmament

      • Rüdiger Hartmann
      Pages 39-40

    7. Japanese Perspectives on the Destruction of Nuclear and Chemical Weapons

      • Teruyoshi Inagawa
      Pages 41-42

    8. Implementation of Arms Control Treaties: A U.K. Perspective

      • William Hopkinson
      Pages 43-44

  6. Stocktaking of National and Bilateral Disposal/Destruction Programmes: Chemical Weapons

    1. The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention

      • Ian R. Kenyon
      Pages 45-52

    2. Overview of the United States Chemical Demilitarization Program

      • Theodore M. Prociv
      Pages 53-64

    3. Destruction of German Old Chemical Weapons in Munster

      • Volker Starrock
      Pages 65-68

    4. United States Support to the Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction Program

      • Roland Lajoie
      Pages 69-75

    5. German-Russian Cooperation in the Destruction of Chemical Weapons

      • Detlef Boldt
      Pages 77-78
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The end ofthe Cold War opened unprecedented opportunities for reductions in weapons of mass destruction. With these opportunities came new challenges, both scientific and political. Traditionally approached by different groups, the scientific, technical and political challenges are inextricably intertwined. Agreements to dismantle and destroy chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons, after having been negotiated via diplomatic channels, require the expertise of scientists associated with their development to determine the safest and most environmentally sound methods of destruction. It is in this context that representatives from sixteen countries and five international organizations were convened jointly by NATO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State Government of North Rhine Westphalia 19-21 May, 1996 in a meeting near Bonn to take stock of worldwide efforts to destroy and dismantle chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons remaining after the end ofthe Cold War. NATO support was provided under the auspices of the NATO Science Committee's Panel on Disarmament Technologies. The conference brought together the major actors involved in the dismantlement and destruction of chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons, highlighted the substantial accomplishments achieved in this area and pinpointed the remaining technical obstacles still to be overcome. It also underlined the critical importance of transparency, data exchange and verification as indispensable preconditions for disarmament and cooperative security.

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  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium

    Nancy Turtle Schulte

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