Overview

This authoritative account details the doggedly persistent work of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) on Iraq which has during the past eight years, in the face of continued Iraqi deception, gradually uncovered more and more of the scope of the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons programmes and established an ongoing monitoring and verification regime. Vital lessons are drawn for international security and for the strengthening of the non proliferation regimes for both chemical and biological weapons.

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Author:   Graham S. Pearson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.505kg
ISBN:  

9780333760369

ISBN 10:   0333760360
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   26 May 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'...this exceptionally lucid and detailed analysis...provides many lessons for those like myself who are engaged in the global elimination of these weapons.' - Ambassador Jose M. Bustani, Director-General, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands '...indispensable for anyone interested in arms control and how to cope with contemporary and growing threats of chemical and biological warfare.' - Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Executive Chairman, UNSCOM, 1991-98 '...this volume will be the definitive source on efforts at international enforcement and in particular on UNSCOM's difficult course for many years to come.' - Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University, New York '...essential reading for all concerned with non-proliferation and arms control.' - Ambassador Tibor Toth, Chairman, Ad Hoc Group '...essential reading for the next century.' - Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, President, Pugwash, President, Royal Society, 1990-95 '...an excellent well researched book.' - Professor Sir William Stewart, Chief Scientific Adviser, 1990-95

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GRAHAM PEARSON, CB, is Visiting Professor in International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire where he is active particularly in the area of biological weapons arms control. Until his retirement from the British Ministry of Defence in 1995, he was Director General and Chief Executive of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, Salisbury. He has published several articles on chemical and biological weapons and their arms control and has contributed to Biological Weapons: Weapons of the Future? (1993), US Security in an Uncertain Era (1993), Non-Conventional Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East (1993) and Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s, and he co-editor, with Professor Malcolm Dando, of Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Key Points for the Fourth Review Conference.

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