The CBW Protection Symposium 18 years in the service for peace A revue of the past, today and the future

摘要

This seventh symposium on protection against chemical and biological warfare agents in Stockholm 15-19 June 2001 will, together with the six previous symposia, illuminate how the interests in the different fields of CBW protection have varied during the last two decades. The years since the first symposium in 1983 have been years with dramatic political developments, including the Iraqi large-scale use of chemical weapons against Iran, the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact (WP), and the coming into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Naturally, all of these events have been reflected at the symposia.