While in that job he headed efforts to reduce threats to the United States from weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Our deterrence still provides protection from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons attacks by states, more of which possess these capacities than did at the end of the Cold War.
While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued a nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
We recognized the grave risks posed by proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and their means of delivery and acknowledged the need to cooperate to reduce potential threats to legitimate trade.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Mr Tschopp and his committee are already looking into a quite separate allegation that the Swiss spymaster had links with a biological and chemical weapons programme built up by South Africa's apartheid regime.
The U.S. signed on to two accords banning biological and chemical weapons and, pursuant to those treaties, has eliminated all offensive viruses and toxins and is in the process of destroying its stocks of chemical munitions.
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In a damning report the MoD said its own officials failed to respond to a fax sent by the Department of Health, warning them against vaccines taken by British troops to protect them against biological and chemical weapons.
European foreign ministers who met in Luxembourg on Monday warned that closer trade and economic links with Iran would have to be matched by Iranian efforts to stop terrorism and the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
So it is always best to remember that we have to try to work for peace in the Middle East, for peace in Northern Ireland, for an end to terrorism, for protections against biological and chemical weapons being used in the first place.
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Even if, unlikely as it seems at present, Mr Hussein agrees to give carte blanche to Unmovic to scour Iraq for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, that may not be enough to convince everyone that the country is no longer a threat.
Clinton...find that the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ('weapons of mass destruction') and of the means of delivering such weapons, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat .
Likewise, the administration's declaration that it would not unleash nukes on non-weapons states that lived by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was criticised either for being unwise (because it curtailed deterrence against biological and chemical weapons), or misleading (because it is so full of loopholes that it does not curtail deterrence much at all).
On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, the President declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) and the means of delivering such weapons.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
An agreement to destroy within 30 days and under international supervision all biological, chemical and nuclear weapons-related facilities and stockpiles and ballistic missile sites.
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The use of chemical and biological weapons are banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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President Bush upping the ante on America's war against terrorism and the United States officially urging Nato this week to get tough with countries who may be developing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
However, using the seeds to make a highly concentrated form of ricin would require laboratory equipment and expertise to extract, said Raymond Zilinskas, a chemical and biological weapons expert.
Al Libi would become notorious, after being captured in November 2001, for lying to his interrogators and telling them that al Qaeda was working to get chemical and biological weapons from Saddam Hussein.
However, most practicing physicians and other medical providers receive a minimal amount of training in WMD, radiologic, chemical and biological weapons, so it is vital that they continue to review policies and procedures to care for patients who may be exposed.
They have accused critics who questioned the existence of chemical and biological weapons of playing politics with the issue.
The debate right now is over did they actually have stockpiles as opposed to programs for chemical and biological weapons?
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
Under the ceasefire agreement which ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq was obliged to end its chemical and biological weapons capacity.
When it comes to chemical and biological weapons, if you have the program you have the knowledge, you have the production capability.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
The United States argued Hussein's regime had been harboring forbidden stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program.
Iraq is also reported to have begun excavating sites where, it says, chemical and biological weapons were disposed of after the Gulf war.
He will put us back in the forefront of the world's fight to reduce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and to stop global warming.
But Mr Blix is also demanding answers to a series of other longstanding questions he has about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes.
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