Two international events aimed at halting the spread of chemical and biological weapons occurred last week. In Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the U.S. signed a bilateral agreement with the Uzbeks to dismantle a former Soviet chemical weapons research facility in the desert city of Nukus. In London, scientists from three national academies met to discuss ways to control biological weapons. The bilateral agreement allots up to $6 million from the U.S.'s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program—informally known Nunn-Lugar funds—for destruction of the Chemical Research Institute in Nukus. The facility—described by Brian Moran, director of the Pentagon's Office of CTR Policy, as the size of a couple of football fields—was used by the Soviets to research and test chemical weapons. Pentagon spokesman Vic Warzinski says the 18-month U.S.-funded destruction project will eliminate a serious proliferation threat. Among the chemical agents the Soviets tested at Nukus was a new class of lethal nerve agents known No...