The new biological weapons : threat, proliferation, and control

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""Book Title"" ""Contents"" ""List of Tables & Figures"" ""Table 1.1 The Chemical and Biological Warfare Threat Spectrum"" ""Table 2.1 The Phases of the U.S. Offensive Biological Warfare Program"" ""Table 2.2 U.S. Herbicide Usage by Type of Mission"" ""Table 2.3 Plant Hormones and Their Functions"" ""Table 3.1 Some Goals of the Human Genome Project for 1998�2003"" ""Table 4.1 Families of Venomous Snakes"" ""Table 4.2 Some Characteristics of Chemical and Toxin Agents"" ""Table 4.3 Comparative Lethality of Toxins in Laboratory Mice"" ""Table 4.4 Categorization of Toxins by Toxicity""""Table 5.1 Endothelin/Sarafotoxin"" ""Table 5.2 Some Effects of Peptides"" ""Table 5.3 Some Regulatory Functions of Peptides"" ""Table 6.1 Chronology of Different Approaches to Drug Discovery"" ""Table 7.1 Amount of Toxin Required for Lethality in Various Attack Scenarios"" ""Table 7.2 Nonpeptide Antagonists"" ""Table 8.1 Types of Biological Warfare"" ""Table 8.2 Lactose Absorption by Adult Population"" ""Table 8.3 Some Racial/Ethnic Differences in Single-Gene Disorders"" ""Table 9.1 Toxin Assessment According to Criteria for Selecting Toxins as Toxin Weapons""""Table 9.2 Toxin Risk Assessment"" ""Figure 4.1 Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the Interaction Between Superantigen and MHC Class II and the TCR Complex"" ""Figure 5.1 Amino Acid Sequence of Endothelin-1"" ""Figure 5.2 Diagrammatic Representation of the Structure of Endothelin"" ""Figure 5.3 Amino Acid Sequence of Substance P"" ""Acknowledgments"" ""1-Technological Change and Arms Control"" ""The Necessity of Arms Control"" ""The Nature of Arms Control"" ""The Mechanisms of Arms Control"" ""The Agenda of Arms Control Today""""New Biological Weapons"" ""Outline of the Book"" ""2-Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons"" ""Toxin Weapons"" ""Bioregulators"" ""Deliberate Direct Attacks on Human Chemical Regulatory Systems"" ""3-Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology"" ""The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention"" ""The Chemical Weapons Convention"" ""4-Toxins"" ""Natural Toxins"" ""Current Military Concerns"" ""Defense Against Toxin Weapons"" ""Mechanisms of Action"" ""The Dilemmas of Dual-Use Technology"" ""Futures"" ""5-Bioregulatory Peptides"" ""Endothelin""""Substance P"" ""Neuropeptides in General"" ""Neuropeptides as Biological Warfare Agents"" ""The Soviet Union"" ""6-Specificity: Receptors"" ""Cell Signaling"" ""Receptors"" ""7-Agent Delivery"" ""Aerobiology"" ""Drug Delivery"" ""Specific Targets"" ""8-Targets"" ""Using Biological Weapons"" ""Agricultural Warfare"" ""Operating with Toxin Weapons"" ""Ethnic Weapons"" ""9-Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened?"" ""The General Purpose Criterion and Its Implementation"" ""Implementing the CWC"" ""Implementing the BTWC""