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Vol.
25 No. 3
May - June 2003
Impact
of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention
(IUPAC Technical Report)
by
G. W. Parshall, G. S. Pearson, T. D. Inch, and E. D. Becker
Pure
and Applied Chemistry,
Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 23232352 (2002)
This
document was prepared as a report from IUPAC to the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to provide
an evaluation of scientific and technological advances in
the chemical sciences relevant to the Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC). The report is intended to assist OPCW and its Member
States in preparation for the First Review Conference to be
held on 28 April 2003. The CWC, now ratified by 145 nations
and in effect since 1997, totally prohibits the production,
storage, or use of toxic chemicals as weapons of war. This
report is based on an IUPAC Workshop held in Bergen, Norway,
30 June to 3 July 2002. The report highlights developments
in organic synthesis and changes in chemical plant design
that will pose new challenges to the Convention, but it also
describes recent and probable future developments in analytical
chemistry that should assist in implementation of the Convention.
The key issues identified at the Workshop are listed and the
findings and observations are summarized in 18 points. Some
of the lectures presented at the Workshop are published in
the same issue of PAC.
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