Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

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Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 27, 2011 - Science - 306 pages
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.
 

Contents

GAS BUGS AND COMMON SENSE I
2
The Fog of War
3
DELIVERY
6
DETECTION
8
ACQUISITION
9
Who Has These Weapons?
19
CHEMICAL AGENTS
32
6
36
PERSPECTIVES ON CHEMICAL WARFARE
148
FROM KOREA TO THE GULF WAR
160
Control and Disarmament
169
THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION CWC
175
MONITORING AGENTS AND THEIR PRECURSORS
182
BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
191
Basic Concepts
193
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS
204

2
42
EAST ASIA
50
13
53
OTHER PLAYERS
57
Threats and Responses
63
MEDICAL THREATS AND RESPONSES
67
14
71
CIVIL DEFENSE THREATS AND RESPONSES
75
CHEMICAL AGENTS
85
Basic Concepts
87
Nitrogen Mustard
102
Nerve Agents Toxic Organophosphates
109
36
117
Chemical Warfare A Brief History
127
WORLD WAR I
142
BIOREGULATORS
217
Biological Warfare A Brief History
219
THE UNITED STATES BW PROGRAM
226
19191989
233
w w
236
Control and Disarmament
237
THE BTWC TODAY
245
Vaccination and Biological Warfare
249
MODERN MILITARY VACCINATIONS
256
33
263
Iran
271
Israel
279
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
293
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