41. Report No. 2000/05: Biological Weapons Proliferation The Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency told a press conference in Geneva in November 1996 that roughly a dozen countries twice the number suspected in the http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/pblctns/prspctvs/200005-eng.asp

@import url(/css/bs2.css); Canadian Security Intelligence Service www.csis.gc.ca Skip to content Skip to institutional links Common menu bar links Home Contact Us Help Search ... Perspectives Institutional links CSIS About CSIS Our Priority Areas History Newsroom ... Careers Quick Links CSIS RSS Newsfeed Partners and Related Sites FAQ A-Z Index ... Proactive Disclosure Report No. 2000/05: Biological Weapons Proliferation June 9, 2000 This paper uses open sources to examine any topic with the potential to cause threats to public or national security. Introduction 1. It is difficult to conceive of a more odious weapon than the biological one, capable in a particularly insidious way of causing a level of fatalities comparable to, or even greater than, that of nuclear explosive devices. Fortunately, doubts about the military effectiveness of biological weapons in a tactical combat situation have resulted in their being used little in recent times. Nevertheless, in spite of the prohibition embodied in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of 1975, some states continue to research and develop these weapons, which have often been characterized as "the poor man's atomic bomb." Top of Page Discussion Top of Page Egypt 6. According to open information, Egypt announced early in 1972, before signing the BTWC, that it possessed biological weapons. The US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in July1998 reiterated its belief that Egypt had developed BW agents by 1972, and went on: "There is no evidence to indicate that Egypt had eliminated this capability and it remains likely that the Egyptian capability to conduct BW continues to exist."

42. ACDA FACT SHEETS US ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2045 ~FFI ~E ~F PUBLIC AFFAIRS (202) 6478677 ~ The participation of the US private sector; and http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/ctr/news/heu.htm

Current as of: May 20, 1996 AGREEMENT ON HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM An agreement concerning the disposition of highly-enriched uranium ~(HEU) from the dismantlement of nuclear weapons in Russia has been initialed by Major General (Retired) William F. Burns, representing the United States of America, and Deputy Minister of Atomic Energy ~Nikolai ~Yegerov, representing the Russian Federation. The agreement requires formal approval by both governments, after which it will be ~signe an entered into effect. The agreement is in two parts. The first part establishes the parties' objectives. It commits them to cooperate in the conversion, as soon as practicable, of the ~HEU resulting from dismantlement of nuclear weapons in Russian into low-enriched uranium ~(LEU) for use as commercial reactor fuel. It also calls on the parties to establish appropriate measures to ensure that this transaction is executed in a ~manne consistent with all applicable nonproliferation, physical security, material accounting and control, and environmental re ~. ~rements. The second part of the agreement ~conunits the parties to seek to enter into an implementing contract within twelve months to accomplish the objectives set forth ~i ~tfte first part. The agreement specifies that the implementing contract will provide, ~amon other things, for the following:

43. From The CAROLINA FREE PRESS October 30, 1996 Volume II Issue 9 (US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Publication 4). These publications describe a three stage disarmament program which provides for the progressive strengthening of the United http://www.ncmilitia.org/docs/DISARMING.pdf

44. Lead Page :: OceanLaw.org - Law Of The Sea :: Security, Sovereignty & Sustainabi former Director, US Arms Control and DIsarmament Agency The following letter was sent to Sen. John F. Kerry, chair of the http://www.oceanlaw.org/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=98

45. Eagles Of War - U.S. Arms Control And Disarmament Agency U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency http://www.eaglesofwar.com/c-1540-us-arms-control-and-disarmament-agency.aspx

46. Iran And The Virtual Bomb having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb, said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. http://mydd.com/story/2009/2/20/53145/9741

Sign in Sign up FB.init("ddf2775c69f9e095cf01b096445fc0f6", "xd_receiver.html"); Username: Password: Remember? Forget? Iran and the Virtual Bomb by Charles Lemos , Fri Feb 20, 2009 at 12:31:45 AM EST The Financial Times is reporting that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, believes that Iran has has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought. They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz. If such a quantity were further enriched it could produce more than 20kg of fissile material - enough for a bomb. "It appears that Iran has walked right up to the threshold of having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb," said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Chalk up another failure for the Bush Administration whose unwillingness to have even back channel communications played right into Iranian hands. Let's face it, the mullahs know their geo-political poker and they have been nothing but coy and ambiguous. Iran's goal, according to a number of analysts, is not a bomb but a virtual bomb. That is, Iran wants the capability to build one on short notice if need be. David Albright, the head of the Institute for Science and International Security finds that if Iran does decide to build a nuclear weapon, "it has reached a point in which it could do so quickly."

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