Jeanne Guillemin

Biological Weapons

From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deg Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780231129435
• ISBN-10: 0231129432
• Artikelnr.: 22208320

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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