Finishing their work after the end of the cold war, the authors of the 1996 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) were able to establish machinery for inspection and verification with regard to the universal ban on the use, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
1996年《化学武器公约》的制定者在冷战之后完成其工作，后又得以为普遍禁止使用、生产和储存化学武器建立视察和核查机制。