Criteria for monitoring a chemical arms treaty: Implications for the verification regime. Report No. 13
The multinational Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) being negotiated at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva is viewed by many as an effective way to rid the world of the threat of chemical weapons. Parties could, however, legitimately engage in certain CW-related activities in industry, agriculture, research, medicine, and law enforcement. Treaty verification requirements related to declared activities include: confirming destruction of declared CW stockpiles and production facilities; monitoring legitimate, treaty-allowed activities, such as production of certain industrial chemicals; and, detecting proscribed activities within the declared locations of treaty signatories, e.g., the illegal production of CW agents at a declared industrial facility or the diversion or substitution of declared CW stockpile items. Verification requirements related to undeclared activities or locations include investigating possible clandestine CW stocks and production capability not originally declared by signatories; detecting clandestine, proscribed activities at facilities or sites that are not declared and hence not subject to routine inspection; and, investigating allegations of belligerent use of CW. We discuss here a possible set of criteria for assessing the effectiveness of CWC verification (and certain aspects of the bilateral CW reduction agreement). Although the criteria are applicable to the full range of verification requirements, the discussion emphasizes verification of declared activities and sites.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Center for National Security Studies
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10114940
- Report Number(s):
- LA-12242; CNSS-13; ON: DE92006761
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Dec 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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