U.S.
Army - Chemical Materials Agency (Provisional)
http://www.cma.army.mil
For many years, the
U.S.
Army=s Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization (PMCD) has been
responsible for destroying chemical weapons while ensuring public
and worker safety and environmental protection.
As of
February 18, 2003, the PMCD and SBCCOM joined their
demilitarization and storage functions into a new organization, the
Chemical Materials Agency. This
new provisional agency will carry out the mission of safely storing
and eliminating obsolete and aging chemical weapons in the U.S.
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National
Academy
of Sciences (NAS)
http://www.nas.edu
The National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council,
and the
Institute
of
Medicine
are all private, nonprofit institutions that provide science,
technology and health policy advice under a congressional charter.
The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy
of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and
technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and
advising the federal government. The National Research Council has conducted several studies related to disposal of chemical weapons. |
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Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
http://www.opcw.org
The OPCW, located in The Hague, Netherlands, is an international organization dedicated to implementing the
provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention in order to achieve a
world free of chemical weapons.
The OPCW=s ultimate aim is to contribute to international security and
stability, to general and complete disarmament, and to global and
economic development. One
of their major tasks is to verify the destruction of chemical
weapons and prevent their re-emergence in any member state. |
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The
Henry
L.
Stimson
Center
http://www.stimson.org
The
Henry
L.
Stimson
Center
in
Washington,
DC
offers practical, nonpartisan solutions to the problems of
national and international security through its four main areas of
research, including reducing the threat of weapons of mass
destruction, building regional security, strengthening international
peace, and linking trade technology and security.
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