By Jiri Matousek (auth.), Vladimir M. Kolodkin, Wolfgang Ruck (eds.)

1 2 Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mikhailovitsh Kolodkin , Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Ruck 1 Institute of traditional and Technogenic mess ups, Udmurt country college, Izhevsk (Russia), 2 Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, collage Lüneburg (Germany) through the chilly warfare a complete arsenal of lethal chemical guns used to be allowed to accumulate on each side of the ideological divide. fortunately, at the present time the issues are reversed. services is now required within the box of secure and environment-friendly disposal of chemical guns and cleansing up of infected websites all over the international, yet no longer least within the ex-Soviet-led nations. The individuals and audio system to the NATO-Russia complicated examine workshop at the “Ecological dangers linked to the Destruction of nd th Chemical Weapons”, hosted through the college of Lüneburg on 22 - 26 October, 2003, for that reason, got here from many various elements of the realm. Of the 8 nations represented on the workshop, have been ex-Eastern- Block, and 6 have been Western nations. but the West was once not at all overrepresented. to the contrary, the Russian expert-speaker contingent, with 33 individuals, did justice to the dimensions in their nation – and to their chemical-weapons challenge – and supplied nearly all of energetic individuals. In all, there have been fifty seven contributors, of which eleven dispatched from the TACIS undertaking “The improvement of the chemical guns” facility on the indifferent plant No four of OAO Khimprom, Novocheboksarsk.