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Biological Weapons – From the Invention of State–Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism de Jeanne Guillemin

Biological Weapons – From the Invention of State–Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism

Autor Jeanne Guillemin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2006
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231129435
ISBN-10: 0231129432
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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