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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996)
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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996)
Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1, 7
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This volume summarises the materials presented at the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop on Sea-Dumped Chemical Munitions, held in
Kaliningrad (Moscow Region), Russia, in January 1995. The
conference was sponsored by the NATO Division of Scientific and
Environmental Affairs in the framework of its outreach programme to
develop co-operation between NATO member countries and the
Cooperation Partner countries in the area of disarmament
technologies. The problem of the ecological threat posed by
chemical weapons (CW) dumped in the seas after the Second World War
deserves considerable international attention: the amount of these
weapons, many of them having been captured from the German Army, is
assessed at more than three times as much as the total chemical
arsenals reported by the United States and Russia. They were
disposed of in the shallow depths of North European seas - areas of
active fishing - in close proximity to densely populated
coastlines, with no consideration of the long-term consequences.
The highly toxic material have time and again showed up, for
instance when retrieved occasionally in the fishing nets,
attracting local media coverage only. Nevertheless, this issue has
not yet been given adequate and comprehensive scientific analysis,
the sea-disposed munitions are not covered by either the Chemical
Weapons Convention or other arms control treaties. In fact, the
problem has been neglected for a long time on the international
level. Only recently were official data made available by the
countries which admitted conducting dumping operations.
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