Feasibility of On-Site Verification

A Modular-Incremental Approach to Improving Compliance Verification With the Biological Weapons Convention

“…These new, distributed security risks present different verification challenges in the biological context, in contrast with the Chemical Weapons Convention or Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 8 and have led some experts to argue that compliance verification is currently impossible, 3 although others have pointed out the opportunities that advances in biosciences bring to technical verification. 9 This commentary offers solutions to some of the political and technical challenges that have led to this conclusion.…”