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In this section tentative answers will be offered, in the light of the Convention’s uneven experience over its first decade in force, to the three questions which were posed in Chapter 1.

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  1. Alan Litherland, A Short Guide to Disarmament (London: Housmans, 1982), p. 14. Note that Dr Litherland very properly formulates this statement in such a way as to avoid the related temptation of indulging in the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

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Sims, N.A. (1988). Agenda for Recovery. In: The Diplomacy of Biological Disarmament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08733-4_11

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