Yet, the United States remains in total compliance with its commitments under the Biological Weapons Convention.
There were no chemical or biological weapons with the containerized labs, which measure 20 feet square.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
The use of chemical and biological weapons are banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The U.S. must also avoid the present temptation to repeat the mistakes inherent in the Biological Weapons Convention.
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Biological weapons experts said the biological agent is extremely difficult to turn into a weapon of mass destruction.
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In the absence of any significant discoveries of chemical or biological weapons the real reason becomes more apparent.
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).
Further, we supported the implementation of actions called for by the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference in December 2011.
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They have accused critics who questioned the existence of chemical and biological weapons of playing politics with the issue.
The reflex, to restrict and ban, has worked (albeit far from perfectly) for more traditional sorts of biological weapons.
For years, American policy makers have treated the growing menace of noncompliance with the Biological Weapons Convention with benign neglect.
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For instance, she said, there is a therapy for only one of the 13 viruses listed among likely biological weapons.
The debate right now is over did they actually have stockpiles as opposed to programs for chemical and biological weapons?
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He warned, "we cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people".
Under the ceasefire agreement which ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq was obliged to end its chemical and biological weapons capacity.
In the absence of any international response to this particularly egregious violation, the Soviet biological weapons program has reportedly proceeded apace.
Some have invoked the language of nuclear deterrence, others of biological weapons, others have spoken of crime, others of public health.
When it comes to chemical and biological weapons, if you have the program you have the knowledge, you have the production capability.
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Hence, to abide by the Biological Weapons Convention they do not need this protocol that is merely supposed to strengthen the convention.
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Those on Mr Bush's worry-list have nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or are trying hard to get them, despite treaty promises not to.
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.
Although a Japanese cult-group, Aum Shinrikyo, planned to use biological weapons they actually attempted and failed to disseminate biological agents for terrorist purposes.
Iraq is also reported to have begun excavating sites where, it says, chemical and biological weapons were disposed of after the Gulf war.
In an interview on CNN yesterday, moreover, Ambassador-at-large for Russian affairs Strobe Talbott stated that Russia was a country "armed with biological weapons" (BW).
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.
In 1972, the U.S. and virtually every other civilized nation signed the Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, stockpiling and use of biological arms.
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After Saddam Hussein's government collapsed the following month, U.S. inspectors found some evidence that Iraq had conducted prohibited research into long-range missiles and biological weapons.
Hussein Kamel Hassan Majeed, a son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, defected and revealed that Hussein was making biological weapons at a center where inspectors had found nothing.
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