United Nations Counter-NBC Task Force

The United Nations Special Task Force Against Unconventional Weapon Proliferation, usually called by its earlier name (the United Nations Counter-NBC Task Force) or the acronym UN-CNBC is a special task force of the United Nations made up of leveed military personnel, chiefly from the UN Security Council member nations. Created by the passage of UN General Assembly Resolution 33/76 in the wake of the Forced Hand Incident, the UN-CNBC was most prominent throughout the Slow Burn period, though it remained an independent (and formidable) force even after the rise of the Megacorporations.

Original Mission

Created in the wake of the near-disaster of the Forced Hand Incident during Abel Archer 84, the UN-CNBC was established with the mandate to enforce UN Regulations and treaties regarding the use of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons, and to prevent the proliferation of such weapons to new state or non-state actors who did not already have the capacity to use such weapons. UN-CNBC inspectors were empowered with sweeping oversight mandates that allowed them to inspect and confiscate a wide variety of weapons and weapon precursor materials.

UN Sovereignty

In 2028, the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council passed UN Joint Promulgation 01, declaring itself to be a sovereign, state-like entity. For a time, UN-CNBC remained the sole military arm of the newly-independent United Nations until the United Nations General Peacekeeping Force could be established. Thereafter, it resumed its original mission and purpose.

This move is broadly credited with catapulting the UN-CNBC onto its current trajectory, as rather than relying on UN member-state levees, the UN could now directly recruit so-called "world citizens" directly into the UN-CNBC with (nominally) no additional loyalties. This also caused the UN to begin its own independent procurement policies, leading to some of the more iconic equipment choices of the UN-CNBC, like the H-3128 Muska Vanta VTOL transport aircraft and the M-31 Fusee Assault Rifle.

Refereeing the Corporate Wars

Just as UN power began to supplant the traditional balance of power on the world stage, the rise of the Megacorporations began, and the Slow Burn era eventually gave way to the Corporate Wars of the 1960s and onwards. Facing the balancing act of reducing global armed conflict while remaining independent, the UN-CNBC took a tack of permitting the Corporate Wars but sending UN-CNBC Special Inspectors into conflict zones to ensure the mercenary factions involved restrained themselves to "conventional" arms. By many, this was seen as a betrayal of the original promise of the UN-CNBC, but the United Nations' official position remains that the UN-CNBC does not have keeping the peace within its mission scope and that United Nations General Peacekeeping Force response would be better suited to that role - a response which rarely, if ever, arrives.

Notable Units

• UN-CNBC Special Inspectors are a form of intelligence unit, with the mandate to enter conflict zones directly and "prevent the use of proscribed weapons".
• UN-CNBC Group Three is one of presumably a number of paramilitary units for the intended purpose of storming and holding specific positions and are specially trained in hazardous environment combat. They have been known to make especially heavy use of augmentations.
• UN-CNBC-affiliated units fly the H-3128 Muska Vanta VTOL, whose distinctive appearance, low noise profile, and extremely low radar cross section are said to have given rise to the Black Helicopters Conspiracy Theory, though this likely predates the introduction of the aircraft.