Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons

   • Graham S. Pearson

   Pages 1-31

3. Biological Weapons Proliferation Concerns

   • Jonathan B. Tucker

   Pages 33-76

4. The Biotechnology Revolution: The Science and Applications

   • Kathryn Nixdorff, Jens Brauburger, Dorte Hahlbohm

   Pages 77-124

5. The Relevance of Advances in Biotechnology to the Task of Strengthening the BTWC

   • Malcolm Dando

   Pages 125-149

6. Technological Aspects of Verification: Declarations, Managed Access and Confidential Proprietary Information

   • Richard Guthrie

   Pages 151-159

7. Technological Aspects of Verification: Investigation of Alleged Use of Biological Weapons

   • Richard Guthrie

   Pages 161-170

8. Verification Technologies: Sampling and Identification

   • Claude Eon, Henri Garrigue

   Pages 171-180

9. Biological Agent Detection Technology

   • J. J. Valdes

   Pages 181-197

10. Towards a Verification Protocol

    • Marie Isabelle Chevrier

    Pages 199-216

11. Prospects for the Ad Hoc Group

    • Tibor Toth

    Pages 217-223

12. New Scientific and Technological Aspects of Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): An Overview of the ASI and a 1999 Postscript

    • Graham S. Pearson

    Pages 225-244

13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-252

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In the summer of 1997 some twelve lecturers and sixty students met for ten days in Budapest Hungary in a NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) to consider "New Scientific and Technical Aspects of Verification of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention". In many ways the meeting was ahead of its time. The Ad Hoc Group was only then about to move to the discussion of a rolling text of the Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). It had been mandated to negotiate the Protocol by the Special Conference which had considered the work of the VEREX process that had taken place following the 1991 Third Review Conference of the Convention. Now, in late 1999, after much further negotiation of the text of the Protocol we are moving towards the endgame of the negotiations. Nevertheless, the scientific and technical issues discussed in the ASI in Hungary continue to be of direct relevance to the verification of the Convention and will continue to be relevant as the eventual Protocol moves from agreement through a Preparatory Commission stage and into full implementation over the next several years. The papers in this volume are much as they were presented in Budapest both in order of presentation and in content. They were designed by the ASI co-directors, Professor Graham Pearson and Ambassador Tibor Toth (Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group) to provide an integrated overview and in-depth analysis of the issues at stake.

• NATO
• evolution
• negotiations
• infectious diseases

• Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England

  Malcolm R. Dando, Graham S. Pearson

• Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria

  Tibor Toth

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