E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten, eBook
Croddy Chemical and Biological Warfare
2002
ISBN: 978-1-4613-0025-0
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-1-4613-0025-0
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
Zielgruppe
Popular/general
Weitere Infos & Material
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
