Biological Weapons Convention
Sign in to saveAlso known as BWC, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, BWTC, Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
treaty banning production of bioweapons
Official website
Biological weapons | United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Biological weapons disseminate disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- multilateral treaty
- Official name
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
- Location
- London
- Official website
- disarmament.unoda.org/biological-weapons
- Image
- BWC Participation.svg
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- prohibits
- biological weapon
- language of work or name
- Spanish
- publication date
- 1972-04-10
- point in time
- 1972-04-10
- effective date
- 1975-03-26
- depositary
- Federal Government of the United States
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Encyclopedic overview
Signed10 April 1972 LocationLondon, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. Effective26 March 1975 ConditionRatification by 22 states, including the three depositaries Signatories109 Parties189 (complete list)
8 non-parties: Chad, Djibouti, Egypt (signatory), Eritrea, Haiti (signatory), Israel, Somalia (signatory), and Syria (signatory). DepositaryUnited States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation (successor to the Soviet Union) LanguagesChinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish Full text Biological Weapons Convention at Wikisource
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