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GRAHAM PEARSON, CB, is Visiting Professor in International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire where he is active particularly in the area of biological weapons arms control. Until his retirement from the British Ministry of Defence in 1995, he was Director General and Chief Executive of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, Salisbury. He has published several articles on chemical and biological weapons and their arms control and has contributed to Biological Weapons: Weapons of the Future? (1993), US Security in an Uncertain Era (1993), Non-Conventional Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East (1993) and Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s, and he co-editor, with Professor Malcolm Dando, of Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Key Points for the Fourth Review Conference.

'...this exceptionally lucid and detailed analysis...provides many lessons for those like myself who are engaged in the global elimination of these weapons.' - Ambassador Jose M. Bustani, Director-General, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands '...indispensable for anyone interested in arms control and how to cope with contemporary and growing threats of chemical and biological warfare.' - Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Executive Chairman, UNSCOM, 1991-98 '...this volume will be the definitive source on efforts at international enforcement and in particular on UNSCOM's difficult course for many years to come.' - Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University, New York '...essential reading for all concerned with non-proliferation and arms control.' - Ambassador Tibor Toth, Chairman, Ad Hoc Group '...essential reading for the next century.' - Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, President, Pugwash, President, Royal Society, 1990-95 '...an excellent well researched book.' - Professor Sir William Stewart, Chief Scientific Adviser, 1990-95

• List of Tables and Figures Foreword by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, 1991-97 Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Developments Since UNSCR 687 (1991) Countering Proliferation Iraq Chemical Weapons Programme Iraq Biological Weapons Programme An Analysis of UNSCOM Countering Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation Prospects for the Future References Appendix Index