Biological weapons arms control

Arms Control of Robotic Weapons

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2009.931862 W ith the development of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, robotic weapons came of age. The operations of this Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern Africa in the last few years have given us a glimpse of the future of high-tech war [6], [14], [24]. It is a future in which thousands of miles separate those f...

The Shortcomings of Indeterminacy in Arms Control Regimes: the Case of the Biological Weapons Convention

Tactical Nuclear Weapons Elimination: next Step for Arms Control

Dr. Nikolai Sokov began his career as a research fellow at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies in Moscow and at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), where he received his candidate of history degree in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry and worked on disarmament issues and participated in the START I talks. In 1992, he took a leave of absence...

Living Weapons: Biological Weapons and International Security

In the summer of 1996, as a (much younger) Army infectious disease physician, I headed off to a new assignment with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. It was a heady time to be entering the niche fi eld of biodefense. Five years before the events of 9/11 and the subsequent “Amerithrax” attacks would become an integral part of the ...

Confronting Biological Weapons

The New World was ravaged by smallpox for several centuries after the Spanish conquest. Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccine made possible the prevention and control of smallpox epidemics. In response to a large outbreak of smallpox in the Spanish colonies, King Charles IV appointed Francisco Xavier de Balmis to lead an expedition that would introduce Jenner’s vaccine to these colonies. D...