Global Movement and Tracking of Chemical Manufacturing Equipment: A Workshop Summary.

摘要

The years before Saddam Hussein co-opted pesticide production facilities in Iraq to produce chemical weapons, the world’s inspection and verification regimes were designed to govern large-scale chemical manufacturing facilities, which were primarily located in a few regions of the globe. Globalization has reduced the efficacy of the current inspection regimes and opened verification gaps through the proliferation of chemical manufacturing equipment and infrastructure. To better understand the movement and tracking of chemical manufacturing equipment of dual-use2concern, the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) atthe Naval Postgraduate School contracted with the Boardon Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of theNational Research Council (NRC) to hold a day-and-a-half workshop on the global movement and tracking of chemical manufacturing equipment. The workshop, held May 12-13,2014, in Washington,DC, looked at key concerns regarding the availability and movement of equipment for chemical manufacturing, particularly used and decommissioned equipment that is of potential dual-use concern. Though the original statement of task called for an examination of future technology, discussions among the planning committee (see Appendix C for planning committee biographies) along with input received from the stakeholder community during the planning phase.