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Russia ramps up chemical weapons use in Ukraine, European spies warn
The German and Dutch intelligence services said Friday that Russia is increasing its use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. Moscow's military is employing "a wide range of chemical weapons with increasing frequency and is not hesitating to employ more potent agents," the spies said in a joint press release published Friday morning.
While chemical and nuclear weapons treaties have systems to verify compliance, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a global pact banning bioweapons, does not. Now, as technologies such as ...
There, states-parties to the Biological Weapons Convention gathered for the Ninth Annual Review Conference, or “RevCon,” as it’s known. These happen every five years, although the Covid-19 ...
When it went into force in 1975, the BWC was the first multilateral treaty to ban an entire class of weapons of mass destruction. Adherents commit not to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire ...
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U.S. marks 50th anniversary of Biological Weapons Convention - MSNThe U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of biological and toxin ...
The convention, which went into effect in 1975, prohibits the development, production, stockpiling or otherwise acquisition of biological weapons. Nearly universally adopted, 184 countries ...
The Biological Weapons Convention, which bans all bioweapons, is completed and opened for signature. Seventy-nine nations immediately sign the treaty. December 1974 ...
If the Biological Weapons Convention can’t be toughened because of diplomatic frictions, like-minded countries should at least agree on a set of best practices, as they’ve begun to do with AI.
The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of the toxins.
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