Politics and Diplomacy: Perspectives on CWC, Opening Address -- Opening Remarks -- Keynote Address -- Remarks on Challenges to the Chemical Weapons Convention I -- Remarks on Challenges to the Chemical Weapons Convention II -- Histories of Chemical Weapons in the 20th Century: In Denial of the Horrors of Chemical Warfare: Expert Assessments of Chemical Weapons During and After World War One -- Coping with Crisis: Rumours, Science and Poison Warfare in Inter-War Europe -- ‘Woe to You for Being a Grandchild’: Mutations and the Ethical Case Against WMDs Among Post-War British Geneticists -- Participation of Civil Society in CWC Implementation: How Far We’ve Come: The Colorado Experience -- Civil Society Participation and Collaboration to Meet the Chemical, Weapons Convention Goals: How Far We Have Come? -- Voices from the Margins: The Unseen Impact of Chemical Weapons on Civilian Populations -- Voices from the Centre: A Mission to Destroy Chemical Weapon Stock-piles Worldwide -- CWC – A Model for the Abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): From Disarmament to Abolition: Learning to Maintain the CWC Model -- The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Model for Verification of the Biological Weapons Convention -- Compliance Management – The Verification Dimension -- Preventing the Weaponization of Mid-Spectrum Agents as the Chemical, Life and Associated Sciences Converge -- Three Decades of Chemical Weapons Destruction: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned -- Chemical Weapons and Terrorism: Ongoing and Future Challenges -- The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Tool in the Global Fight against Terrorism -- Defence Against Terror Weapons: Why Are Chemical Weapons Still Used and How Do We Defend Against Them? -- Information Warfare: The Power of Images: The Photographic Document: Aesthetics and Politics of Militarised Photographs.

Open Access

This open-access volume consists of papers presented at the conference “Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges”, held in Berlin, 5–6 October 2023, as well as of additional contributions. The volume’s twenty-two individual chapters reflect on the history and achievements of the CWC over the past thirty years and explore existing and future challenges as the world realigns itself with a new geopolitical and security environment amid ongoing conflicts in volatile regions such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Highlights of the volume include: • Contributions by government officials, renowned scholars, and esteemed members of civil society. • A keynote address by the former Director General of the implementing agency of the CWC, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), providing insights into the treaty’s evolution. • A section examining the potential of the CWC as a model for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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