Chemical and Biological Warfare
A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
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2001
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2002 ed.
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-95076-1 (ISBN)
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-95076-1 (ISBN)
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The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, allowing organizations of just a few dozen people to deploy potentially devastating attacks. While in the twentieth century most arms-control efforts focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen, including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes, methods of deployment and defensive response, and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation.
1: Chemical warfare (CW) history; 2: Defenses against chemical weapons; 3: Incentives and Disincentives to Acquire Chemical Weapons; 4: The Geopolitics of Proliferation; 5: Strategies for Control and Disarmament; 6: Definition of a biological warfare (BW) agent; 7: Brief History of Biological Weapons; 8: Motivations for Proliferation; 9: Biological warfare (BW) agent detection; 10: Biological warfare (BW) and terrorism; 11: Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972
Co-Autor | C. Perez-Armendariz, J. Hart |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; XXII, 306 p. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1420 g |
Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
Geisteswissenschaften | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-95076-1 / 0387950761 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-95076-1 / 9780387950761 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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