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Additional Resources and Links

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Links to other agencies and organizations involved in chemical demilitarization.
 
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) [external link} - prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons.

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) [external link}

The OPCW, located in The Hague, Netherlands, is an international organization dedicated to implementing the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention in order to achieve a world free of chemical weapons. The OPCW’s ultimate aim is to contribute to international security and stability, to general and complete disarmament, and to global and economic development. One of their major tasks is to verify the destruction of chemical weapons and prevent their re-emergence in any member state.

U.S. Army - Chemical Materials Agency (Provisional) [external link}

For many years, the U.S. Army=s Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization (PMCD) has been responsible for destroying chemical weapons while ensuring public and worker safety and environmental protection.  As of February 18, 2003, the PMCD and SBCCOM joined their demilitarization and storage functions into a new organization, the Chemical Materials Agency.  This new provisional agency will carry out the mission of safely storing and eliminating obsolete and aging chemical weapons in the U.S.

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) [external link}

The National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicineare all private, nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology and health policy advice under a congressional charter. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The National Research Council has conducted several studies related to disposal of chemical weapons.

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) [external link}

The OPCW, located in The Hague, Netherlands, is an international organization dedicated to implementing the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention in order to achieve a world free of chemical weapons.  The OPCW=s ultimate aim is to contribute to international security and stability, to general and complete disarmament, and to global and economic development.  One of their major tasks is to verify the destruction of chemical weapons and prevent their re-emergence in any member state.

The Henry L. Stimson Center [external link}

The Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC offers practical, nonpartisan solutions to the problems of national and international security through its four main areas of research, including reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction, building regional security, strengthening international peace, and linking trade technology and security.