Chemical and Biological Warfare

A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

Eric Croddy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2001 | 2002 ed.
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-95076-1 (ISBN)

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The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW), as Eric Coddy shows in this introduction for the concerned layman, 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, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort 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.

One: Gas, Bugs, and Common Sense.- 1: The Fog of War.- 2: Who Has These Weapons?.- 3: Threats and Responses.- Two: Chemical Agents.- 4: Basic Concepts.- 5: Chemical Warfare: A Brief History.- 6: Control and Disarmament.- Three: Biological Agents.- 7: Basic Concepts.- 8: Biological Warfare: A Brief History.- 9: Control and Disarmament.- 10: Vaccination and Biological Warfare.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.

Co-Autor	C. Perez-Armendariz, J. Hart
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 306 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
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