Acronym Insititute. Information on the ongoing Protocol negotiations.
Bradford Project on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Preventing Biological Warfare. A wealth of information and analysis, including Ad Hoc Group documents, quarterly reports on progress in the Protocol negotiations, and a complete set of Bradford Evaluation and Briefing Papers, which have been prepared to aid the delegations participating in the Ad Hoc Group negotiations. Also Bradford Review Conference Papers and Breifing Books for the BTWC Review Conferences.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. The Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program and the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons provide extensive information, analysis and recommendations regarding national and international efforts to prevent the development and use of biological and chemical weapons.
Center for Defense Information's Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation Site. Background on the BTWC Protocol negotiations and brief profiles of countries that possess or are pursuing a BW capability.
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Reports, workshop proceedings (including a series on the development of a compliance-monitoring regime for the BTWC), occasional papers and other publications from the Center's Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project.
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute. General background material on the broader issue of meeting the CBW threat, from a US perspective.
Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation. The Program's quarterly journal (available on the website) inlcudes detailed reviews of the latest developments in Protocol negotiations.
The Henry L. Stimson Center Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project. Includes a list of BW agents (with characteristics and associated symptoms), information about the Russian, US and Iraqi BW programs and details about countries of proliferation concern, information about US domestic preparedness for CBW terrorism, information about the Australia Group, and BW-related reports.
International Security Information Service. Includes a helpful press pack on strengthening the BTWC and briefing papers related to the Protocol.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Includes publications on biological terrorism.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Includes an online CBW Educational Module, a backgrounder on relevant developments during the 1969-72 BTWC negotiations, and SIPRI Yearbook chapters on CBW (available on the website two years after their publication).
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). Includes Disarmament Forum quarterly publication.
VERTIC. Promoting effective verification of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. VERTIC's focus is currently on two areas: strengthening tools and mechnanisms for verifying biological weapons compliance and national implementation legislation.
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