Chemical weapon destruction in Russia : political, legal, and technical aspects / ed. by John Hart and Cynthia D. Miller.

Papers from a meeting held in Bonn, Germany, Nov. 1996.

The problems of Russian chemical weapon destruction / Natalya Kalinina -- Russia on the path towards chemical demilitarization / Alexander Chimiskyan -- Russia's legal basis for chemical demilitarization / Igor Khripunov -- Chemicalweapon destruction requirements of the CWC / John Hart -- Destruction or conversion of Russian chemical weapon production facilities / John A. Gilbert [...et al.] -- Chemical weapon destruction technologies for the Russian CW stockpile / Thomas Stock -- Risks posed by the chemical weapon stockpile in the Udmurt Republic / Vladimir Kolodkin -- The Russian-US joint evaluation of the Russian two-stage process for the destruction of nerve agents / Irina P. Beletskaya -- The roleof GosNIIOKhT in the Russian chemical weapons destruction programme / VladislavSheluchenko and Anton Utkin -- US assistance to Russia's chemical weapon destruction programme / Amy E. Smithson -- Chemical weapon destruction in Russia: prospects for increasing assistance to local communities / Cynthia D. Miller

A meeting of 30 experts was held in Bonn, Germany, in November 1996 to discuss various aspects of the destruction of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation. This volume reviews the Russian chemical weapon destruction efforts, the factors which have hindered them, and the reasons why Russian ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was postponed until 5 November 1997.