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What does BTWC stand for?

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1972)


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Not by chance, the first article of LAAE Aquila Statement refers to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) treaty, as well as the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).
The United States studied botulinum toxin as a military bioweapon until President Nixon signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972, ending all US biotoxin weapons research.
Achieve universal compliance with, and effective implementation of, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and improve cooperation between industry, scientists, and governments to reinforce the ban on the development and production of biological weapons and keep abreast of developments in biotechnology.
In a down-to-the-wire decision that left many delegates frustrated and angry, deliberations at the Fifth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) were suspended on the final day of the meeting, to be reconvened November 11, 2002.
See Mark Wheelis, Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, Nov.
Soviet Union signs off on Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, but continues a high-intensity program to develop and produce biological weapons at least through the early 1990s.
1972 The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, an international treaty, takes ambitious steps to ban both biological and chemical weapons.
It was timed to be held before a review of the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, which will take place before the end of the year.

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