Links to Chemical Warfare Agent Sites 

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Links for the Rest of Us

For the rest of us, here are some useful links to other sites with information on chemical weapons and agents:

• The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is the international body responsible for the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (formally, The 1993 Paris Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction).
• The Harvard Sussex Program is an international collaborative program of research and communication to promote the global elimination of chemical and biological weapons and to strengthen the constraints against hostile uses of biomedical technologies.
• The Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Program incudes material developments in chemical and biological weapons, their actual or alleged use and acquisition, and efforts to obtain effective disarmament measures aiming at their total elimination.
• The Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Project covers all aspects of chemical and biological weapons and their control.
• The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center (CBRNIAC) provides information on chemical and biological warfare issues, plus they publish the CBRNIAC Newsletter.
• The U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command (RDECOM) is the major subordinate command for chemical and biological warfare defense. Within RDECOM, the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), located at the Edgewood Area of the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground, is the Army's principal R&D center for chemical and biological defense technology, engineering, and service. ECBC is a world leader in applying state-of-the-art science, technology, and engineering to CB defense problems. Traditionally strong in chemical warfare defense, ECBC also has impressive capabilities in biology, biotechnology, and bio-safety.
• The Chemical Material Agency (CMA) is the U.S. government agency responsible for safely and effectively storing, treating, and disposal of existing chemical warfare materials. CMA operates chemical weapons destruction facilities in Indiana, Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama and Utah.
• The Program Manager Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) is responsible for safely destroying the chemical weapons stockpiles located in Colorado and Kentucky.  
• Disposal of Surplus Chemical Weapons , an article by Maria Bowers of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). BICC and SIPRI are also participating in a joint project on CW destruction in Russia.
• The Textbook of Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare provides an in-depth review of the history, effects, and treatment of a wide variety of chemical and biological agents.
• Professor Dane Jones at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo offers a course on chemical and biological warfare and international law in that area. The materials on the course web site provide an interesting overview of these issues.”.
• The Department of Peace studies at the University of Bradford aims to provide a better means to disseminate information on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and related chemical and biological warfare issues