Assessing the risk of chemical and biological weapons proliferation to terrorists

Abstract

Dr. Jean Pascal Zanders directs the Chemical and Biological Warfare Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was previously a Research Associate at the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at the Free University of Brussels. He is the author of “The Destruction of Old Chemical Munitions in Belgium” in the 1997 SIPRI volume The Challenge of Old Chemical Munitions and Toxic Armament Wastes, co-author of the SIPRI fact sheets “The Chemical Weapons Convention” (1997) and “Iraq: The UNSCOM Experience” (1998), and co-author of chapters in the SIPRI Yearbooks 1997, 1998, and 1999. ASSESSING THE RISK OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROLIFERATION TO TERRORISTS