For example, the dangers of chemical weapons proliferation have been discussed by M. Meselson," What Policy for Nerve Gas ? " in Arms Control Today (Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1975), and by Julian Perry Robinson in "Chemical Weapons for NATO?" appearing in M. Meselson, ed., Chemical Weapons and Chemical Arms Control (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1978), pp. 34-37.
2.
CCD/361, March 28, 1972, draft convention submitted by the U.S.S.R. and certain other socialist states. CCD/420, April 30, 1974, draft convention submitted by Japan with a subsequent modification on April 8, 1975. CCD/512, August 12, 1976, draft con vention submitted by the United Kingdom.
3.
" Report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament," Vol. I, General Assembly Official Records: Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/32/27) (New York: United Nations , 1977), pp. 87-88.
4.
United Nations, A/C.1/32/PV.22, November 8, 1977.
5.
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stock-piling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction was signed April 10, 1972, and entered into force on March 26, 1975. Article XII of the Convention requires that no later than five years after entering into force "... a conference of states parties to the Convention shall be held at Geneva, Switzerland, to review the operation of the Convention, with a view to assuring that the purposes of the preamble and the provisions of the Convention, including the provisions concerning negotiations on chemical weapons, are being realised."
6.
Fiscal Year 1980 Arms Control Impact Statements.96th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee. Joint Committee Print ( Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1979), p. 230.
7.
Ibid., fn. 3, pp. 13-32.
8.
Sipri, The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Vol. II, " CB Weapons Today (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1973), p. 235.
9.
On American controls, see Gladwin Hill, " Pesticide Control in U.S. in Administrative Jungle: Surrounded by Imprecision ," International Herald Tribune (Paris , May 18, 1979). It also mentions the provocative book by Rachel Carson entitled Silent Spring (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963), which had an important international impact in the 1960s.
10.
For a brief discussion of the economic and security implications of acquiring chemical weapons, see Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons and the Effects of Their Possible Use (New York: United Nations, 1969), pp. 78-86. For a more detailed discussion of the assimilation problem, see Julian Perry Robinson, ibid., fn. 1, pp. 36-37.
11.
Ibid., fn. 3, pp. 40-41, para. 125.
12.
For details on the genesis of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, see Dr. Alfonso Garcia Robles, " The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)," appearing in the SIPRI Yearbook of World Armaments and Disarmament 1969/70 (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1970).
13.
Both issues are discussed in the two references cited in fn. 1.
14.
Ibid., fn. 8, pp. 235-236.
15.
SIPRI, paper prepared by A.R. Pittaway et al., appearing in Chemical Disarmament: Some Problems of Verification (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1973), pp. 131-172.
16.
For a general discussion of the risk/cost/benefit calculation facing society, see the paper presented by A.J. Fairclough, entitled " Toxic Chemicals and the Environment," to the Environment Group of the Chemical Society, November 3, 1977, London . Mr. A.J. Fairclough was then Director of the Central Unit on Environmental Pollution, Department of the Environment, U.K.
17.
Ibid., fn. 15, pp. 51-172. As regards costing estimates, see pp. 93-94.
