Chemical and biological warfare: a comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen

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, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially...

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Main Author: Croddy, Eric (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. Copernicus Books 2002
Edition:impr.
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Summary: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, 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.
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. 293 - 294
Physical Description:XXII, 306 S. Ill.
ISBN:0387950761

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