Biological weapons : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / Jeanne Guillemin.
Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001, biological weapons had never been a major public concern in the United States. Today, the possibility of their use by terrorists against Western states looms large as an international security concern. In Biological Weapons, Jeanne Gu...
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Table of 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.