MAD's Midlife Crisis: The Impact of US-Russia Rivalry on International Arms Control

... Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) respectively), another major disarmament treaty — the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) — was agreed upon without including any verification mechanisms to assure compliance. The ... ... the probability of reaching consensus on the Russian proposal is very low. Dmitry Stefanovich: Nuclear Weapons Prohibition and International Security It appears that the current discordance between the US and Russia over chemical weapons terrorism is due ...