Terrorism. Industry prevention and the Chemical Weapons Convention
M. Kelliher
American Chemistry Council, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
Abstract:
The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks introduced the United States
to domestic and complex terrorism. According to terrorism experts, public
and private sector targets are indistinguishable to the perpetrators
of this evolved form of terrorism. The global chemical industrys
counteroffensive against international terrorism depends in part on
implementation of the Chemicals Weapons Convention (CWC), long supported
by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and its sister associations
in the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA). This paper
describes the U.S. chemical industrys response to September 11th
and how adherence to the letter and spirit of the CWC helps prevent
terrorism.
*Lecture presented at the IUPAC Workshop, Impact of
Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention, Bergen,
Norway, 30 June-3 July 2002. Other presentations are published in this
issue, pp. 2229-2322.
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