List of Figures List of Tables Foreword; C.Duelfer Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations/Acronyms Introduction The United Nations Secretary-General Investigations in Iran and Iraq The Decade of UNSCOM An Analysis of UNSCOM The Amorim Panel and the Creation of UNMOVIC The Years of UNMOVIC The Developments Leading to War in March 2003 and the Iraq Survey Group Iraq’s Chemical and Biological Programmes The Absence of WMD Stockpiles in Iraq Inspection, Verification and Non-Proliferation: Lessons Learned Future Roles for UNMOVIC and its Expertise Prospects for the Future Appendices Notes Index

GRAHAM S. PEARSON is Honorary Visiting Professor in International Security at the Department of Peace Studies of the University of Bradford, UK, where he is engaged on work addressing the strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention and on the Chemical Weapons Convention. He was also Chairman of an International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Working Party on Chemical Weapons Destruction Technologies. He was formerly Director General and Chief Executive of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down. He is active in the area of chemical and biological weapons non-proliferation and has published numerous works on the subject including
The UNSCOM Saga (1999).