What's New

Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials, by John Hart and Peter Clevestig. 2008 SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxord University Press: Oxford, 2008).

Looking Back: the Continuing Legacy of Old and Abandoned Chemical Weapons, by John Hart. Arms Control Today, vol. 38, no. 2 (March 2008).

Implications of the Convergence of Biology and Chemistry in Arms Control, by Peter Clevestig and John Hart, Paper presented at The Advancement of science and the dilemma of dual use: Why we can't afford to fail, Polish Academy of Sciences; 9-10 November 2007; Warsaw, Poland.

Chemical Industry Verification under the CWC: Scientific and Technological Developments and Diplomatic Practice, by John Hart and Ronald G. Sutherland, Paper presented at OPCW Academic Forum 2007, 18-19 September 2007; The Hague, Netherlands.

Countering Bio-threats: EU Instruments for Managing Biological Materials, Technology and Knowledge, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 19, by Frida Kuhlau (August 2007).

Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare, by Benjamin C. Garrett and John Hart (Scarecrow Press, August 2007).

Crucial Guidance: A Code of Conduct for Biodefense Scientists, by Roger Roffey, John Hart and Frida Kuhlau, Arms Control Today (September 2006).
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program, by John Hart, in Eds. Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa and Malcolm Dando, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Assistance for the destruction of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation: political and technical aspects (pdf-file 776 KB). Paper presented by John Hart at the conference: Strengthening European Action on WMD Non-proliferation and disarmament: How Can Community Instruments Contribute 7-8 December 2005, Brussels, Belgium.
A Historical Note: the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Russia's Virology Center at Sergeiv Posad, by John Hart, Applied Science and Analysis Newsletter (28 February 2005).
Political and Technical Aspects of Challenge Inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention (pdf-file 280 K). Paper presented by John Hart at: EU seminar on "Challenge Inspections" in the framework of the CWC, Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 24-25 June 2004, Vienna, Austria.