Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions - 9789048147144

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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and SolutionsAuthor(s): A.V. Kaffka\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer, Netherlands\nImprint: Springer\nISBN-13: 9789048147144, 978-9048147144\nSynopsis\nThis volume summarises the materials presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sea-Dumped Chemical Munitions, held in Kaliningrad (Moscow Region), Russia, in January 1995. The conference was sponsored by the NATO Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs in the framework of its outreach programme to develop co-operation between NATO member countries and the Cooperation Partner countries in the area of disarmament technologies. The problem of the ecological threat posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumped in the seas after the Second World War deserves considerable international attention: the amount of these weapons, many of them having been captured from the German Army, is assessed at more than three times as much as the total chemical arsenals reported by the United.