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

By Eric Croddy , John Hart (Auth.) , Clarisa Perez-Armendariz

Book information

Publisher
Copernicus
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1-4612-6520-7, 978-1-4613-0025-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-0025-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9138259 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
306\316
Time added
2014-01-18 08:00:00
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Description

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.

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