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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention

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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions

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Abstract

During the late 1980’s the public became generally aware of the fact that another chemical time bomb is ticking: the chemical weapon (CW) munitions which were dumped after World War II in the Baltic and the North Sea. At the end of World War II, the Allies were faced with the problem of how to get rid of more than 300,000 tonnes of CW munitions which were left especially in Germany. The easiest and quickest solution was to load the weapons onto disabled ships and sink these ships in deep waters. Bombed and burned hulks were collected from all over northern Europe and patched up for their last journey.

The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

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Dr. Stock, T. (1996). Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention. In: Kaffka, A.V. (eds) Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions. NATO ASI Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6_7

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