The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Protocol Negotiations

Description

Yes / Professor Graham S. Pearson discusses the scope of the international legal prohibition against biological warfare and provides an overview of the status of negotiations, currently in the end-game phase, to agree a legally-binding verification Protocol to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

Links & Downloads

1. BTWC Video Briefings, Distance Learning Module 1, No. 2. 2000. [Video]. Summary of the main points of BTWC Evaluation Paper 22: "The US Rejection of the Composite Protocol: A Huge Mistake Based on Illogical Assessment". Presented by Pearson, G.S. and filmed by Whitby, S. Bradford, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/962

Tags

BTWC

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Protocol

Biological Warfare

Negotiations

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/962
Date	January 2000
Creators	Pearson, Graham S., Whitby, Simon M.
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Video
Rights	© 2000 Whitby, S.M. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk).
Relation	http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/other/video/graham2.ram