Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.
Contents:
Biological agents and disease transmission -- The United Kingdom and biological warfare: the remorseless advance of military science -- The United States in World War II: industrial scale and secrecy -- Secret sharing and the Japanese biological weapons program (1934-1945) -- Aiming for nuclear scale: the Cold War and the US biological warfare program -- The Nixon decision -- The Soviet biological weapons program -- Bioterrorism and the threat of proliferation -- National security and the biological weapons threat -- Biological weapons: restraints against proliferation.
Summary:
A timely account of how resources for biological weapons programs were mobilized and why such weapons have never been deployed in major conflicts offers an understanding of the relevance of the historical restraints placed on the use of biological weapons and looks at what can to done to prevent their proliferation in the post-September 11th world.
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