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Our Mission. The Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Affairs (CBW) leads the Department's efforts to promote the global ban on chemical weapons as embodied in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), develops policies to address emerging chemical weapons issues and challenges, assesses compliance with the CWC and the Biological Weapons ...
Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense: Communication 7735 from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report on Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense, Pursuant to Condition 11(F) of the Resolution of Advise and Consent to Ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, Adopted by ...
Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense: Communication 7735 from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report on Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense, Pursuant to Condition 11(F) of the Resolution of Advise and Consent to Ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, Adopted by ...
Jun 7, 2024 · In May 2024, the United States imposed new sanctions on three Russian government entities and four Russian companies in response to its full-scale war and use of chemical weapons against Ukraine. The United States determined Russia used the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and riot control agents (RCA) as a method of ...
President Nixon ended all U.S. offensive research on potential biological weapons in 1969, but after the end of the Cold War, Russian President Yeltsin admitted what we had long known – namely, that the Soviet Union had maintained its formidable and highly advanced offensive biological weapons program throughout the Cold War.
The United States Biological Defense Program —in recent years also called the National Biodefense Strategy —refers to the collective effort by all levels of government, along with private enterprise and other stakeholders, in the United States to carry out biodefense activities. Biodefense is a system of planned actions to counter and ...
Jan 20, 2022 · The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center is exposing Russia’s intelligence services for providing material support and guidance to “African Initiative,” a new information agency focused on Africa-Russia relations that has spread disinformation regarding the United States and European countries. February 8, 2024.
