Chemical and Biological Warfare : a Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen /
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 organizati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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2002.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 306 pages 25 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9781461300250 (electronic bk.) 1461300258 (electronic bk.) |