ENGLISH

Understanding Understanding

By Linus Pauling , Abram Hoffer , Humphry Osmond; John A Osmundsen; Jerome Agel

Book information

Publisher
Harper & Row
Year
2023
ISBN
0060132396, 9780060132392
Google Books ID
ZwkNAAAAIAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11145225 bytes)
Pages
223\248
Time added
2023-08-31 00:35:18

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, 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.

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