Biological Weapons Convention

When

10 Apr 1972

Kind

Treaty

Coordinates

38.90° N, 77.04° W

Description

treaty banning production of bioweapons

1975 treaty that comprehensively bans biological weapons

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Москве, Вашингтоне и Лондоне (столицы стран-депозитариев) открыта для подписания Конвенция о запрещении разработки, производства и накопления запасов…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “生物兵器禁止条約調印。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page