{"id":102,"date":"2007-10-25T05:58:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T12:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:51:10","slug":"overview-biological-weapons-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/overview-biological-weapons-convention","title":{"rendered":"Overview: Biological Weapons Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biological_Weapons_Convention\">Wikipedia<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Full name<\/strong>: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short name<\/strong>: Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)<br \/>\n<strong>Open for signature<\/strong>: April 10, 1972<br \/>\n<strong>Entered into force<\/strong>: March 26, 1975<br \/>\n<strong>Member states<\/strong>: 158<br \/>\n<strong>Map of member states<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.acceleratingfuture.com\/michael\/blog\/images\/BWC_states.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article I<\/strong>: Never under any circumstances to acquire or retain biological weapons.<br \/>\n<strong>Article II<\/strong>: To destroy or divert to peaceful purposes biological weapons and associated resources prior to joining.<br \/>\n<strong>Article III<\/strong>: Not to transfer, or in any way assist, encourage or induce anyone else to acquire or retain biological weapons.<br \/>\n<strong>Article IV<\/strong>: To take any national measures necessary to implement the provisions of the BWC domestically.<br \/>\n<strong>Article V<\/strong>: To consult bilaterally and multilaterally to solve any problems with the implementation of the BWC.<br \/>\n<strong>Article VI<\/strong>: To request the UN Security Council to investigate alleged breaches of the BWC and to comply with its subsequent decisions.<br \/>\n<strong>Article VII<\/strong>: To assist States which have been exposed to a danger as a result of a violation of the BWC.<br \/>\n<strong>Article X<\/strong>: To do all of the above in a way that encourages the peaceful uses of biological science and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Wikipedia) Full name: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction Short name: Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Open for signature: April 10, 1972 Entered into force: March 26, 1975 Member states: 158 Map of member states: Summary: Article I: Never under any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/52294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}