| Description |
479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Historical context and overview / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando -- The US biological weapons program / John Ellis van Courtland Moon -- The UK biological weapons program / Brian Balmer -- The Canadian biological weapons program and the tripartite alliance / Donald Avery -- The French biological weapons program / Olivier Lepick -- The Soviet biological weapons program / John Hart -- Biological weapons in non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries / Lajos Rózsa and Kathryn Nixdorff -- The Iraqi biological weapons program / Graham S. Pearson -- The South African biological weapons program / Chandré Gould and Alastair Hay -- Anticrop biological weapons programs / Simon M. Whitby -- Antianimal biological weapons programs / Piers Millet -- Midspectrum incapacitant programs / Malcolm Dando and Martin Furmanski -- Allegations of biological weapons use / Martin Furmanski and Mark Wheelis -- Terrorist use of biological weapons / Mark Wheelis and Masaaki Sugishima -- The politics of biological disarmament / Marie Isabelle Chevrier -- Legal constraints on biological weapons / Nicholas A. Sims -- Analysis and implications / Malcolm Dando ... [et al.] |
| Summary |
The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated biological weapons programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs |
| Analysis |
Biological warfare |
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Biological weapons |
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Canada |
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacterial (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction |
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Defence planning |
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France |
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Great Britain |
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History, 1946-1999 |
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History, 2000- |
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Iraq |
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Overseas item |
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South Africa |
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Terrorism |
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Unconventional weapons disarmament |
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United States |
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Warsaw Pact countries |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Biological weapons -- Research.
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Biological weapons -- Testing.
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Biological Warfare -- history.
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Biological Warfare -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Biological Warfare -- prevention & control.
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Biological Warfare -- history.
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Biological Warfare -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Biological Warfare -- prevention & control.
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| Author |
Dando, Malcolm.
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Rózsa, Lajos, 1961-
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Wheelis, Mark.
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| LC no. |
2005050225 |
| ISBN |
0674016998 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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