Ensuring the security of Russia’s chemical weapons: A lab-to-lab partnering program

Nonproliferation Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 70-83

  Vogel, Kathleen ^a  

^a MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 85011525977     PISSN: 10736700     EISSN: 17461766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10736709908436751     Document Type: Article

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