The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention: Confronting the threat of international terrorism

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Responding to the Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 116-157

  Feakes, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203937532     Document Type: Chapter

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