The biomedical community and the biological and toxin weapons convention

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Editorial

The biomedical community and the biological and toxin weapons convention

Simon Whitby¹ and Malcolm Dando²

¹Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

²Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

BMC News and Views 2001, 2:6


Published:	17 August 2001

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Negotiations to find a legally binding way to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of 1972 [1] are in danger of failing. The crisis was precipitated during the current round of talks, now in its final week in Geneva, when the US, alone amongst the negotiating States, rejected the text of a protocol that has taken six and a half years to negotiate.