The CBW Conventions Bulletin in pdf Format

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Each available issue of the Bulletin contains: a bibliography of recent publications in the CBW field and a calendar of forthcoming events. A sample cover page may be viewed as a GIF file.

In order to encourage subscriptions to the Bulletin, there is a slight delay before issues are put on the Web.

A list of Invited Articles sorted by author is also available.

Complete issues of the Bulletin currently available in pdf format (in reverse order):

• Issue Number 58 (December 2002)
  Includes:
  Editorial: "Law Enforcement" and the CWC
  Invited article by Mark Wheelis and Malcolm Dando -- On The Brink: Biodefence, Biotechnology and the Future of Weapons Control
  Progress in The Hague: 40th Quarterly Review
  Report from Geneva: 18th Review
  News Chronology: August-October 2002
  
  
• Issue Number 57 (September 2002)
  Includes:
  Editorial: "Preventing the Hostile Use of Biotechnology: The Way Forward Now"
  Invited article by Graham S Pearson -- Further Chemical Control Regimes: Anti-Doping
  Progress in The Hague: 39th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 2002
  
  
• Issue Number 56 (June 2002)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Ian R Kenyon -- The Chemical Weapons Convention and OPCW: The Challenges of the 21st Century
  Invited article by Nicholas A Sims -- Route-maps to OPBW: Using the Resumed BWC Fifth Review Conference
  Progress in The Hague: 38th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-April 2002
  
  
• Issue Number 55 (March 2002)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Julian Perry Robinson -- What Should be the Scope of the CWC? A Workshop Report
  Progress in The Hague: 37th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 2001-January 2002
  
  
• Issue Number 54 (December 2001)
  Includes:
  Editorial: "International Criminal Law and Sanctions to Reinforce the BWC"
  Progress in The Hague: 36th Quarterly Review
  Report from Geneva: 17th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa:7th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-October 2001
  
  
• Issue Number 53 (September 2001)
  Includes:
  Editorial: "Strengthening The Biological Weapons Convention"
  Invited article by Nicholas A Sims -- Nurturing the BWC: Agenda for the Fifth Review Conference and Beyond
  Invited article by Graham S Pearson -- The US Rejection of the Protocol at the Eleventh Hour Damages International Security Against Biological Weapons
  Progress in The Hague: 35th Quarterly Review
  Report from Geneva: 16th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 6th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 2001
  
  
• Issue Number 52 (June 2001) pages 1-40/pages 41-60
  Includes:
  Invited article by Barbara Rosenberg -- US Policy and the BWC Protocol
  Progress in The Hague: 34th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 15th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 5th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-April 2001
  
  
• Issue Number 51 (March 2001)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- Washington and the BWC Protocol Negotiation
  Invited article by Graham S Pearson -- Further Chemical Control Regimes: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
  Progress in The Hague: 33rd Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 14th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 4th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 2000-January 2001
  
  
• Issue Number 50 (December 2000)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- The CWC and the BWC -- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
  Invited article by Tom Inch -- The Chemical Weapons Convention: A Viewpoint for the Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the UK National Authority
  Invited article by Walter Krutzsch -- Article VI of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Past, Present and Future
  Progress in The Hague: 32nd Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 13th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 3rd Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-October 2000
  
  
• Issue Number 49 (September 2000)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Graham S Pearson -- The CWC General Purpose Criterion: How To Implement?
  Progress in The Hague: 31st Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 12th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 2nd Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 2000
  Supplement -- an extended review of court proceedings in South Africa
  
  
• Issue Number 48 (June 2000)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Ian Kenyon -- Chemical Weapons in the Twentieth Century: Their Use and Their Control
  Invited article by Matthew Meselson -- Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology
  Invited article by Lawrence Scheinman -- Regimes, Defence and Deterrence
  Progress in The Hague: 30th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 11th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 1st Quarterly Review
  Signatures, Ratifications and Accessions
  Supplement -- an extended review of court proceedings in South Africa
  Supplement no 2 -- News Chronology: February-April 2000
  
  
• Issue Number 47 (March 2000)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Robert J Mathews -- Approaching an "End-Game" in the Negotiation of the BWC Protocol: Lessons from the Chemical Weapons Convention
  Progress in The Hague: 29th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 10th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1999-January 2000
  
  
• Issue Number 46 (December 1999)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Tibor Toth -- Time to Wrap Up
  Progress in The Hague: 28th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 9th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-October 1999
  
  
• Issue Number 45 (September 1999)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Will Carpenter -- The First Year of the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board
  Progress in the Hague: 27th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 8th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 1999
  
  
• Issue Number 44 (June 1999)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Paul F Walker -- Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention: Technical and Political Challenges in the US and Russia
  Invited article by Daniel Feakes -- The European Union's Role in CBW Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
  Progress in the Hague: 26th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 7th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1999
  
  
• Issue Number 43 (March 1999)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Ian Kenyon -- Celebration of a Centenary and Some Birthdays
  Progress in the Hague: 25th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 6th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1998-February 1999
  Historical Note no 3 -- Walter Schrieber and the US Air Force
  
  
• Issue Number 42 (December 1998)
  Includes:
  Editorial on Criminalizing CBW Armament
  The HSP Draft Convention to Prohibit Biological and Chemical Weapons Under International Criminal Law
  Progress in the Hague: 24th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 5th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1998
  
  
• Issue Number 41 (September 1998)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Huang Yu -- The CWC: Verification in Action
  Guest Article by Lynn C Klotz and Mark C Sims -- The BWC: Challenge Investigation Voting Procedures
  Progress in the Hague: 23rd Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 4th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-August 1998
  
  
• Issue Number 40 (June 1998)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Kathleen Lawand -- The Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons: the Role of Science in Treaty Implementation
  Progress in the Hague: 22nd Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 3rd Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1998
  
  
• Issue Number 39 (March 1998)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Douglas J MacEachin -- Routine and Challenge: Two Pillars of Verification
  Guest Article by Ahmad Kamal -- The Chemical Weapons Convention today
  Guest Article by Graham S Pearson -- A Lean Organization to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention
  Progress in the Hague: 21st Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 2nd Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1997-February 1998
  
  
• Issue Number 38 (December 1997)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Amy Gordon -- Implications of the US Resolution of Ratification
  Text of Russian CWC ratification law
  Progress in the Hague: 20th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 1st Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1997
  
  
• Issue Number 37 (September 1997)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Tibor Toth -- A Window of Opportunity for the BWC Ad Hoc Group
  Guest Article by Sergei Kisselev -- Russia and the Chemical Weapons Convention: What Next?
  Progress of the BWC Rolling Text (Table)
  Progress in the Hague: 19th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-August 1997
  
  
• Issue Number 36 (June 1997)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Heiner Staub -- Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention: First Experiences of a National Authority
  Progress in the Hague: 18th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1997
  
  
• Issue Number 35 (March 1997)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Ian R Kenyon -- Entry Into Force: the Test of Our Preparations
  Riot Control Agent Guidelines
  Progress in the Hague: 17th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1996-February 1997
  
  
• Issue Number 34 (December 1996)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Frederick L Webber -- The US Chemical Industry Stake in the Chemical Weapons Convention
  Guest Article by Graham S Pearson -- Toxic Chemicals: A Multilateral Export-Import System
  Progress in the Hague: 16th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1996
  
  
• Issue Number 33 (September 1996)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- From Trigger Point to Entry Into Force
  Historical Note no 2 by Benjamin C Garrett -- The Colorado Potato Beetle Goes to War
  Guest Article by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg -- Incorporation of Dual-Use Export Controls in a Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention
  Progress in the Hague: 15th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-August 1996
  
  
• Issue Number 32 (June 1996)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Graham S Pearson -- Implementing Article X of the BTWC: Avoiding Duplication
  Guest Article by Stephen Black -- The UN Special Commission and CBW Verification
  US Senate Action Soon?
  Progress in the Hague: 14th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1996
  
  
• Issue Number 31 (March 1996)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- Criminalizing BW
  Guest Article by Alexander V Vorobiev -- Working on the Compliance Regime for the BWC
  CWC Non-Signatory States
  Progress in the Hague: 13th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1995-February 1996
  
  
• Issue Number 30 (December 1995)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- Over the Impasse
  Guest Article by Sergei Baranovsky -- Green Cross Russia and the Destruction of Chemical Weapons
  Progress in the Hague: 12th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1995
  
  
• Issue Number 29 (September 1995)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- Defining Chemical Weapons the Way the Treaty Does
  Guest Article by Anne M Harrington -- Redirecting Biological Weapons Expertise: Realities and Opportunities in the Former Soviet Union
  Progress in the Hague: 11th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-August 1995
  Sense of the US Senate
  
  
• Issue Number 28 (June 1995)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Ernst Wyszomirski -- The CWC and Barriers to Chemical Trade
  Progress in the Hague: 10th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1995
  News from the Harvard Sussex Program
  
  
• Issue Number 27 (March 1995)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Serguei Batsanov -- Chemical Weapons Convention En Route to Entry Into Force
  Status of US Ratification Process
  Progress in the Hague: 9th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1994-February 1995
  
  
• Issue Number 26 (December 1994)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by A J J Ooms -- Asia Pacific Seminar on the National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
  Guest Article by Graham S Pearson -- Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: the Outcome of the Special Conference
  Progress in the Hague: 8th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1994
  
  
• Issue Number 25 (September 1994)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Michael Moodie -- Bolstering Compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention: Prospects for the Special Conference
  Guest Article by Robert J Mathews and Timothy LH McCormack -- Entry into Force of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Activities and Prospective Timetable
  Progress in the Hague: 7th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-August 1994
  
  
• Issue Number 24 (June 1994)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Pierre JM Cannone -- The Role of the Scientific Community Within the Context of the Convention
  Progress in the Hague: 6th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February-May 1994
  
  
• Issue Number 23 (March 1994)
  Includes:
  Editorial -- New Technologies and the Loophole in the Convention
  Progress in The Hague: 5th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1993-February 1994
  
  
• Issue Number 22 (December 1993)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Abdullah Toukan -- The CWC, the NPT and the Middle East Peace Negotiations
  Guest Article by Charles Baronian -- Destruction of the US Chemical Stockpile
  Progress in The Hague: 4th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: August-November 1993
  
  
• Issue Number 21 (September 1993)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Robert J Mathews -- A Comparison of the Australia Group List of Chemical Weapon Precursors and the CWC Schedules of Chemicals
  Progress in The Hague: 3rd Quarterly Review
  Editorial -- The Australia Group and the Chemical Weapons Convention
  News Chronology: May-August 1993
  Obituary: Charles Floweree
  
  
• Issue Number 20 (June 1993)
  Includes:
  Guest Article by Graham S Pearson -- Chemical Weapons Convention: Validation of Accredited Laboratories and Analytical Measurements
  Progress in The Hague: 2nd Quarterly Review
  Editorial -- Chemical Analysis, Assured Access and Open Publication
  News Chronology: February-May 1993
  
  

Unfortunately, publication methods used before issue number 20 do not allow simple production of PDF files.

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Date of last revision: 6 January 2003 (RG)