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Biological Weapons - From Invention of State Sponsored Programs to Contemporary

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Jeanne Guillemin is professor of sociology at Boston College and senior fellow in the Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak . Klappentext This resource offers readers a highly accessible and informed account of the circumstances under which scientists! soldiers! and statesmen were able to mobilize resources for extensive biological weapons programs and explains why such weapons were never deployed in a major conflict. Zusammenfassung Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001! biological weapons had never been a major public concern in United States. This book provides an account of the circumstances under which scientists! soldiers! and statesmen were able to mobilize resources for biological weapons programs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. Biological Agents and Disease Transmission 2. The United Kingdom and Biological Warfare: The Remorseless Advance of Military Science 3. The United States in World War II: Industrial Scale and Secrecy 4. Secret Sharing and the Japanese Biological Weapons Program (1934-1945) 5. Aiming for Nuclear Scale: The Cold War and the US Biological Warfare Program 6. The Nixon Decision 7. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program 8. Bioterrorism and the Threat of Proliferation 9. National Security and the Biological Weapons Threat 10. Biological Weapons: Restraints Against Proliferation

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