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

Type

Book

Authors

Eric Croddy

ISBN 10

0387950761

ISBN 13

9780387950761

Tags

Biological & Chemical, Nuclear, Engineering, History & Philosophy, Terrorism, National & International Security, Military, Science & Mathematics, Political Science, Military Sciences, Georgetown

Description

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. - from Amzon

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