Chemical and biological warfare : a comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen : Croddy, Eric, 1966- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index

Part one: Gas, bugs, and common sense. Chapter 1: The fog of war -- Chapter 2: Who has these weapons? -- Chapter 3: Threats and responses -- Part two: Chemical agents. Chapter 4: Basic concepts -- Chapter 5: Chemical warfare: a brief history -- Chapter 6: Control and disarmament -- Part three: Biological agents. Chapter 7: Basic concepts -- Chapter 8: Biological warfare: a brief history -- Chapter 9: Control and disarmament -- Chapter 10: Vaccination and biological warfare

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) 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