Working Group Paper Archive

An archive of papers that the working group has written over the years.

Papers that are not available online can be obtained by writing to us at the Center:

Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons
c/o The Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
322 4th St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20002

 

Working Group Papers
Working Group Position Papers
Journal Articles by WG Members

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Working Group Papers

2003

WG, October 2003, Moving Beyond Treaty Regimes to Control Weapons of Mass Destruction

WG, August 2003, UNMOVIC Could Help Resolve Future Biological Weapons Crises

WG, August 2003, Gaps in Global Surveillance: Survey of Online Reporting of Infectious Disease Outbreaks (BWPP Occasional Paper, contributed by the FAS Working Group)

WG, May 2003, Riot Control Agents and the CWC

WG, April 2003, "Nonlethal" Chemical Weapons: A Faustian Bargain

WG, March 2003, Beware the Siren's Song: Why "Non-Lethal" Incapacitating Chemical Agents are Lethal

WG, March 2003, Defending against Biodefence: The Need for Limits

WG, February 2003, Urgent Advisory to the CWC States Parties on Law Enforcement under the CWC

2002

WG, November 2002, The U.S. Government's Interpretation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

WG, November 2002, Non-Lethal Chemical and Biological Weapons

WG, May 2002, Law Enforcement Under the CWC

2001

WG, July 2001, FAS Comments on US Rejection of the BWC Protocol

2000

WG, November 2000, Agricultural Biowarfare and Bioterrorism: an Analytical Framework and Recommendations For the Fifth BTWC Review Conference

WG, October 2000, Gradual Phase-In of Protocol Measures

WG, July 2000, Proposed Structure of the Organization to Implement the BWC Protocol, Addendum

WG, May 2000, Proposal for US Implementing Legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention Protocol

WG, March 2000, Transfers of Dual-Capable Items: Some Possible Compromise Provisions

WG, March 2000, Comments on the Triggers for Declaration of Vaccine and Other Production Facilities

1999

WG, September 1999, Working Paper on BWC Protocol Article VII

WG, June 1999, Views on Visits

WG, June 1999, On the Question of Outbreak Declarations under a Biological Weapons Convention Compliance Regime

WG, June 1999, Program Proposed for Scientific Cooperation: Network of Regional Epidemiological and Diagnostic Centers for Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (NETRED), drafted for WHO

WG, January 1999, Means for Protecting U.S. Industry Within an Effective Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention

1998

WG, December 1998, Aerosol Trigger

WG, December 1998, Visits: A Unified Concept

WG, September 1998, Visits are Crucial

WG, September 1998, The Structure and Cost of A BWC Organization

WG, September 1998, Challenge Investigation Voting Procedures for a BWC Compliance Regime

WG, September 1998, Declaration Triggers: Critique of the Rolling Text

WG, June 1998, A Proposal for Strengthening Scientific Cooperation among States Parties to the BWC: A Network of Early Warning Sites for Monitoring Emerging Infectious Diseases (wiht David Heymann (WHO) and Seth Berkley (Rockefeller Foundation))

WG, February 1998, Perspectives on BWC Compliance Regime Issues Affecting Industry (with industry co-authors)

WG, January 1998, Working Paper of the Legal Subgroup on the Protection of Confidential Information in the Proposed Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention

1997

WG, December 1997, Making Random Non-Challenge Visits Friendly

WG, December 1997, Rapid Resolution of Questions that Might Arise During Nonchallenge Visits

WG, December 1997, Triggers for Declarations and Inspections/Visits Under a BWC Compliance Regime

WG, September 1997, Estimate of the Number of Declared Facilities

WG, September 1997, Confidentiality Can Be Protected During Sampling and Analysis in a BWC Compliance Regime

WG, March 1997, Declarations: Triggers and Contents

1996

WG, October 1996, Annex II on Increasing the Sensitivity of Immunoassays, from Countermeasures for Possible Evasion Scenarios in Sampling and Analysis under a BWC Compliance Regime

WG, May 1996, Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: The Impact on Confidential Proprietary Information and Property (Leonard, Carpenter, Rosenberg, and Klotz)

WG, April 1996, Proposals for the Fourth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention

WG, April 1996, Report of the Subgroup on Investigation of Alleged Use or Release of Biological or Toxin Weapons Agents

1995

WG, December 1995, Sampling and Analysis of Proprietary Microorganisms While Protecting Confidential Proprietary Information

WG, November 1995, Annex on Analysis of Inactivated Microbial Samples, from Potential for New Approaches to Microorganism Identification

WG, November 1995, Potential for New Approaches to Microorganism Identification

WG, September 1995, Industry and the Biological Weapons Convention (directed at U.S. industry)

WG, July 1995, Proposals for Technological Cooperation to Implement Article X of the Biological Weapons Convention

WG, March 1995, Working Paper Addressed to the Western Group

1994

WG, December 1994, First Steps in Carrying Out the Mandate of the Ad Hoc Group to Strengthen the BWC

WG, October 1994, Estimate of the International Costs for a BWC Compliance Regime, revision

WG, July 1994, Annex III on Sample Analysis, from Beyond VEREX: A Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention

WG, July 1994, Beyond VEREX: A Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention

1990-1993

WG, May 1993, Progress in Identifying Effective and Acceptable Measures for a Compliance Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention

WG, November 1992, A Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention (comments on VEREX measures)

WG, March 1992, A Legally Binding Compliance Regime for the BWC: Refinement of Proposed Measures Through Trial Facility Visits

WG, June 1991, Measures under Consideration for the Action at the Third Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention to be held in Geneva (9-27 September 1991), revision

WG, February 1991, Report: Implementation of the Proposals for a Verification Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention

WG, October 1990, Report: Proposals for the Third Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, revision

 

 

Working Group Position Papers

2003

WGPP, March 2003, Chemical Incapacitating Weapons Are Not Non-Lethal

WGPP, March 2003, The Threat of Chemical Incapacitating Agents

WGPP, Jan 2003, Secret Biodefense Activities Are Undermining the Norm Against Biological Weapons

 

Journal Articles by WG Members

Enforcing WMD Treaties: Consolidating a UN Role
Author: Barbara Rosenberg
Publication: Disarmament Diplomacy
Date: February 2004

Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism in the First Years of the 21st Century
Author: Milton Leitenberg
Publication: Center for International and Security Studies, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Date: April 2003