NATO's arsenal towards the inter-related issues of terrorism, chemical and biological warfare, and missile proliferation.

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The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).

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Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.

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Kelly led all the visits and inspections of Russian biological warfare facilities from 1991 to 1994, before becoming in that year senior adviser on biological warfare for the United Nations in Iraq, holding the post until 1999.

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He appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission last July to testify about his alleged role as architect of the apartheid government's covert chemical-and biological-warfare programme.

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The mandate of UNSCOM-the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq-was to see to the dismantling of Iraq's offensive-warfare programs: chemical and biological weapons, nuclear weapons, and longrange missiles.

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