Worldwide governmental efforts to locate and destroy chemical weapons and weapons materials: Minimizing risk in transport and destruction

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 527-539

  Trapp, Ralf ^a,b  

^a Ministry of National Defence   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical weapons; Chemical Weapons Convention; Destruction; Risk

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DANGEROUS GOODS; DANGEROUS GOODS TRANSPORT; DESTRUCTION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TERRORISM;

EID: 33845653144     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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