Chemical Weapons Convention

Number of State Parties 152
Number of Signatories (unratified) 25
Number of non-signatories 16

Convention, Protocol, and Legislation Text

• Chemical Weapons Convention
• US CWC Implementing Legislation
• U.S. Senate's Executive Resolution on Ratification of the CWC
• Executive Order 11850 - Renunciation of certain uses in war of chemical herbicides and riot control agents.
• Geneva Protocol of 1925

Review Conferences

• First Review Conference Political Declaration

Resources

• The Chemical Weapons Convention Website- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Background on Chemical Weapons
• CBW Conventions Bulletin - Quarterly reviews of OPCW activities. (From Harvard/Sussex)
  
• US Govt. CWC Page
  

• "Law Enforcement" and the CWC Editorial. The CBW Conventions Bulletin. December, 2002. By Malcom Dando. Disarmament Forum No. 4. 2002.