SPIEZ LABORATORY - A Short Overview

Dr. Martin Schaer

ETH Zürich 13 October, 2015 LABORATORY

The Swiss National Institute for NBC- Protection

www.labor-spiez.ch

2 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY NBC Centre Spiez

3 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Staff: 103 (as per 01.01.2015)

4 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Organisation

5 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY SPIEZ LABORATORY

• Analysis, Detection and Decontamination

• Arms Control

• Threat Analysis

• Equipment and Material Testing

• Emergency Management

• International Arms Control Verification Missions

• Training of Inspectors

• International Capacity Building

6 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY International Organisations

United Nations Organisation (UNO) • UNSCOM und UNMOVIC: Arms Control in Iraq Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) • Designated Laboratory (Verification) • Delivery of Analytical Reference Chemicals • Training Courses for OPCW Inspectors, Internship Environment Programme (UNEP) • Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Depleted Uranium) • Romania, Afghanistan (Water) • Palestine, Iraq, Liberia (Build-up of Environmental Protection Agency) • Lebanon (Uranium Ammunition) • Afghanistan (Military Waste) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) • Proficiency Test • Kuwait (Depleted Uranium) World Health Organization (WHO) • Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)

7 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY International Organisations

8 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY International Partner Laboratories Germany – WIS, Munster – Robert Koch Institut, Berlin – Bernhard-Nocht Institut, Hamburg (BSL4) – Uni Göttingen, Uni Witten (Analysis of Toxins) – SanAk , München (BSL3) USA – ECBC, Edgewood (BSL3 / DEA) – USAMRIID, Fort Detrick (BSL4 / DEA) – NIH (NIAID), Bethesda (BSL4 / Risk Assessments) Canada – CSCHAH, Winnipeg (BSL4 / Design Review) Sweden – foi, Umeå Finland – Verifin, Helsinki UK – dstl, Porton Down Russia – University Institute, Novosibirsk (EM Diagnostics) China – Academy of Military Medical Sciences Singapore – DSO National Laboratories

9 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Missions

10 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY DisarmamentDisarmament

• Russia Studies of the Destruction of Chemical Weapons and Toxic Waste

• Albania Destruction of Toxic Chemicals

11 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Disarmament

UNSCOM Mission Iraq, 1991

12 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UNEP Mission

2008 UNEP, Myanmar

13 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Training

Courses for inspectors of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

14 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

15 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

16 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

17 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

18 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

Google: ‘Report UN Syria pdf’ http://www.un.org/disarmament/content/slideshow/Secretary_General_Report_of_CW_Investigation.pdf

19 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY UN Mission: Syria

Google: ‘Report UN Syria pdf’

20 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY www.labor-spiez.ch

21 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Chemical Weapons Convention

Use of chemical weapons in the 20th century 1914-8: Over 1300000 people receive gas injuries in first world war, and over 90000 of them die 1935: Italy begins conquest of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) using mustard gas delivered by aircraft spray 1936: Japan invades China using chemical weapons (including mustard gas, phosgene, and hydrogen cyanide); German chemical laboratories produce first nerve agent—tabun 1963-7: Egypt uses phosgene and mustard aerial bombs in support of South Yemen against the Yemeni royalist forces during the Yemeni civil war 1980-8: Iraq attacks Iran and Iraqi Kurds during Iran-Iraq war using mustard and nerve agents 1994-5: Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult uses sarin in terrorist attacks at Matsumoto in June 1994 and on the Tokyo underground in March 1995

22 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Chemical Weapons Convention

23 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Chemical Weapons Convention

24 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Chemical Weapons Convention

25 Source:Federal Mesilaakso Office for, Civil Markku Protection, Chemical (FOCP) Weapons Convention Chemicals Analysis. John WileySPIEZ & LABORATORY Sons, 2005. ISBN: 0-470-84756-5 Chemical Weapons Convention

26 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY Chemical Weapons Convention

2013: Nobel Peace Prize

Ahmet Üzümcü, Director General of the OPCW

27 Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) SPIEZ LABORATORY