Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
- ISBN-10
- 1461300258
- ISBN-13
- 9781461300250
- Series
- Chemical and Biological Warfare
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-27
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Author
- Eric Croddy
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.
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- 2002
- 338 pages
- Paperback
- Springer Science & Business Media
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