The CWC is meant to adapt to new scientific and technical advances in chemistry in order to stay effective and relevant. Below is a list of the technical reports and papers on the issue of the new advances, and how best to incorporate them into the CWC.

• Issue no 23 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (March 1994)
  Includes:
  Editorial: New Technologies and the Loophole in the Convention
  Progress in The Hague: 5th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 1993-February 1994
• Issue no 24 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (June 1994)
  Includes:
  Guest article by Pierre Canonne: The Role of the Scientific Community
  Within the Context of the Convention
  Guest article by Karen Jansen: Disarming Iraq: Lessons for the Chemical Weapons
  Convention
  Progress in The Hague: 6th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February – May 1994
  Guidelines on Riot control Agents
• Issue no 45 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (September 1999)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Will Carpenter: The First Year of the OPCW Scientific
  Advisory Board
  Obituary: A J J Ooms
  Progress in The Hague: 27th Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 8th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 1999
• Issue no 49 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (September 2000)
  Includes:
  Invited article by Graham Pearson: The CWC General Purpose Criterion:
  How to Implement?
  Progress in The Hague: 31st Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 12th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 2nd Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: May-July 2000
• Report – The Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation Challenges and Solutions – Jonathan B. Tucker, Ed., The Monterey Institute of International Studies’ Center for Nonproliferation Studies – April 24, 2001.
  Scientific and Technical Developments and the CWC – George W. Parshall – Page 53.
• First CWC Review Conference Paper No 1: Relevant Scientific and Technological Developments for the First CWC Review Conference: The BTWC Review Conference Experience. – Graham S. Pearson – August 2002.
• Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention (IUPAC Technical Report) – G. W. Parshall, G. S. Pearson, T. D. Inch and E. D. Becker, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 2323–2352, 2002.
• Advances in science and technology. Maintaining the effectiveness of the Chemical Weapons Convention – John Gee, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 2229–2234, 2002.
• Trends in processing and manufacturing that will affect implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention – George W. Parshall, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 2259–2263, 2002.
• First CWC Review Conference Paper No 3: Implementation of the General Purpose Criterion of the Chemical Weapons Convention – Graham S. Pearson – January 2003.
• Report of the Scientific Advisory Board on Developments in Science and Technology – First Review Conference of the CWC – April 23, 2003.
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – August 17, 2005 – Technological Advances Could Reduce Effectiveness Of The Chemical Weapons Convention – ScienceDaily – Retrieved March 25, 2008.
• Verifying the Chemical Weapons Ban: Missing Elements – Jonathan B. Tucker, Arms Control Today – January/February 2007.
• IUPAC/OPCW International Workshop: Impact of Advances in Science and Technology on the Chemical Weapons Convention – Zagreb, Croatia – April 22 – 25, 2007.
  Presentations
  by: John Freeman, Ralf Trapp, Horst Reeps, Moncef Hadhri, Graham Pearson,
  Abbas Shafiee, Francisco Azuaje, Kathryn Nixdorff, Enrico Polastro, Jean
  Marie Basset, Vitomir Sunjic, Peter Seeberger, Tuan Nguyen, Jackie Ying,
  Jennifer Fiegel, Jurgen Altmann, Markku Mesilaaskso, Robin Black, Gary Sides,
  Stefan Mogl, Peter Blain, Srdanka Tomic-Pisarovic, Jiri Matosek and Michael
  Rowell.
• Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention (IUPAC Technical Report) – Balali-Mood, M., Steyn, P.S., Snydes, L.K., and Trapp, R., Pure and Applied Chemistry, 80:175-200(2008).
• The Chemical Weapons Convention: the Second Review Conference and Beyond – Scott Spence and Ralf Trapp, Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies – 2008.
• Advances in Science and Technology and the Chemical Weapons Convention – Ralf Trapp, Arms Control Today – March 2008.