Chemical and Biological Warfare A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen |
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Author:
| Croddy, Eric |
As told to:
| Hart, J. Perez-Armendariz, C. |
Series title: | Copernicus Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-387-95076-1 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
Publisher: | Springer
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Imprint: | Copernicus |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.