Arms control & disarmament projects

Promoting effective verification of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
Researchers: Angela Woodward
Funders: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, UK Global Opportunities Fund (GOF)

Publications and online resources (general)

VERTIC Briefs
no. 4: ‘Biological weapons: minding the verification gap’
by Trevor Findlay (February 2004)

Verification Yearbook
2003
'Back to basics: verification and the Biological Weapons Convention'
by Jez Littlewood
2002
'Continued turbulence over BWC verification'
by Jenni Rissanen

Other
VERTIC Statement to the Meeting of States Parties to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), Geneva, Switzerland, 7 December 2004

VERTIC Statement to the Meeting of Experts to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), Geneva, Switzerland, 23 July 2004.

Time to lay down the law: national legislation to enforce the BWC.
Final report launched at the Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of States Parties, held in Geneva from 10-14 November 2003.

Verification of alleged biological weapons use' 1 July 2002

VERTIC’s response to the April 2002 UK Green Paper on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Countering the Threat from Biological Weapons

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