Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons: Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction [Paperback]

1 2 Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mikhailovitsh Kolodkin , Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Ruck 1 Institute of Natural and Technogenic Disasters, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk (Russia), 2 Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, University L?neburg (Germany) During the Cold War a whole arsenal of deadly chemical weapons was allowed to build up on both sides of the ideological divide. Happily, today the problems are reversed. Expertise is now required in the field of safe and environment-friendly disposal of chemical weapons and cleaning up of contaminated sites all around the world, but not least in the ex-Soviet-led countries. The participants and speakers to the NATO-Russia advanced research workshop on the Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of nd th Chemical Weapons, hosted by the University of L?neburg on 22 - 26 October, 2003, therefore, came from many different parts of the world. Of the eight countries represented at the workshop, two were ex-Eastern- Block, and six were Western countries. Yet the West was by no means overrepresented. On the contrary, the Russian expert-speaker contingent, with 33 participants, did justice to the size of their country  and to their chemical-weapons problem  and provided the majority of active participants. In all, there were 57 participants, of which 11 dispatched from the TACIS project The development of the chemical weapons facility at the detached plant No 4 of OAO Khimprom, Novocheboksarsk.Chemical Weapons Convention after the First Review Conference.- Implementation of Russias Obligation to Destroy chemical Weapons in the Udmurt Republic.- The CWC after the Review Conference.- Session I: Prediction.- Evaluation of State of Environment and Monitoring of Hazardous Facilities.- Prediction of Quantitative Assessments of Effects on Nature from Potential Accidents at Chemical Warfare Agent Facilities.- Ecological Risks of Toxic Substances Combustion.- Risk Assessment of Chemical Weapons Influence on Ecosystems aslS