The UNSCOM Saga Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation

This authoritative account details the doggedly persistent work of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) on Iraq which has during the past eight years, in the face of continued Iraqi deception, gradually uncovered more and more of the scope of th

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Global Issues Series General Editor: Jim Whitman This exciting new series encompasses three principal themes: the interaction of human and natural systems; co-operation and conflict; and the enactment of values. The series as a whole places an emphasis on the examination of complex systems and causal relations in political decision-making; problems of knowledge; authority, control and accountability in issues of scale; and the reconciliation of conflicting values and competing claims. Throughout the series the concentration is on an integration of existing disciplines toward the clarification of political possibility as well as impending crises. Titles include: Graham S. Pearson THE UNSCOM SAGA Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation Michael Pugh REGENERATION OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES

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The UNSCOM Saga Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation Graham S. Pearson Visiting Professor in International Security University of Bradford

Foreword by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, 1991–97

First published in Great Britain 1999 by

MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-41381-2

ISBN 978-0-230-59690-0 (eBook)

DOI 10.1057/9780230596900 First published in the United States of America 1999 by ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-22959-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pearson, Graham S., 1935– The UNSCOM saga : chemical and biological weapons non-proliferation / Graham S. Pearson. p. cm. — (Global issues series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-22959-7 (cloth) 1. United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq—History. 2. Chemical arms control—Verification—Iraq. 3. Biological arms control—Verification—Iraq. I. Title. II. Global issues series (St. Martin’s Press) UG447.P34 1999 327.1'745—dc21

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