1. World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century (Geneva: WHO, 2007), available at http://www.who.int/whr/2007/en/ ; “Global Public Health Response to Natural Occurrence, Accidental Release or Deliberate Use of Biological and Chemical Agents or Radionuclear Material that Affect Health,” 55th World Health Assembly, WHA.55.16, May 18, 2002, available at http://apps.who.int/gb/archive/pdf_files/WHA55/ewha5516.pdf ; and WHO, “Health Aspects of Biological, Chemical and Radionuclear Threats,” available at http://www.who.int/csr/delibepidemics/informationresources/en/index.html .
2. U.N. General Assembly Resolution 1(I) of January 24, 1946, seeking proposals for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction.
3. In 1992 at a meeting held at the level of heads of state and government, the U.N. Security Council confirmed that development and proliferation of WMD is a threat to international peace and security; see “Note by the President of the Security Council,” (S/23500, January 31,1992). The threat posed by proliferation of WMD was reaffirmed by the U.N. Security Council in 1995, in “Statement by the President of the Security Council,” S/PRST/1995/9, February 22, 1995.
4. At the 16th Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in July 2009, the “Work Plan for Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes” was adopted; in June 2009 the European Commission adopted a policy package on “Strengthening Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Security in the European Union;” and in March 2009 the Fifth Plenary Session of the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Committee against Terrorism took place.
5. Bob Graham et al., World At Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (New York: Vintage, 2008).