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Destruction of Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China
by Peter O´Meara Evans
Peter O´Meara Evans is a Research Assistant of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project,
Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), California
An earlier version of this paper was prepared as background paper for the Conversion Survey 1997
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. CWC OBLIGATIONS
- Declarations and disposal
III. LOCATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF ACW
- Prospects for determing the locations and conditions of ACW
IV. RETRIEVAL, STORAGE, AND DESTRUCTION OPERATIONS
- Retrieval operations
- Storage operations
- Destruction operations
- Prospects for retrieval, storage, and destruction operations
V. LOGISTIC BARRIERS
- OPCW inspections
VI. COSTS
- Inspections
- Destruction
- Verification of destruction
- Prospects for meeting costs
VII. CONCLUSION
VIII. ACRONYMS
IX. REFERENCES
APPENDIX I: GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF KNOWN SITES
APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY OF CWC-RELATED TERMS
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