Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned CitizenThe 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
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 |
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Other editions - View all
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned ... Eric Croddy Limited preview - 2002 |
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned ... Eric Croddy No preview available - 2011 |
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned ... Eric Croddy No preview available - 2012 |
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