1. 1993. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction opened for signature in Paris. January131993.
2. 1972. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction opened for signature in Washington DC, London, and Moscow. April101972.
3. 1925. The Protocol Prohibiting the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare was signed in Geneva. June171925.
4. Genomics and future biological weapons: the need for preventive action by the biomedical community