Not many years ago in autumn of 2003 “a mere chemistry academy student in Moscow
managed to design a home-made bomb and to plant it in the heart of Moscow, just
a quarter mile away from the Kremlin. He claimed to be connected to radical
neo-bolsheviks, which he hardly was”.[1]
Nevertheless, an academic carrier is not necessary to manufacture a
chemical weapon. In the age of globalization where the access to knowledge is
just a web surfing, internet can provide any information. Anyone of us with
access to knowledge of chemicals or randomly could mix readily available
household products to create relatively dangerous concoctions.[2]
Beyond any doubt we live in a globalized environment,
where cooperation among states and people from every corner of this world is at
the forefront, establishing organizations such as the UN, singing treaties such
as the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and creating terrorist networks such
as Al Qaeda. The question is: bearing in mind the above do we stand a chance to
put an end in the proliferation and production of chemical weapons? Isolating
chemical weapons characteristics from Bailey’s speech: easy, inexpensive,
effective and difficult to detect, the issue of proliferation becomes dubious.
How close we are in a world without chemical weapons, taking into consideration
the forthcoming scientific and technological advancements in their production,
detection, decontamination and destruction?


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