Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Croddy, Eric (Author), Perez-Armendariz, C. (With), Hart, J. (With) |
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ISBN: 1461265207 ISBN-13: 9781461265207 Publisher: Copernicus Books OUR PRICE: $44.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - History | Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare - Science |
Dewey: 355.34 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.03 lbs) 306 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW), as Eric Coddy shows in this introduction for the concerned layman, 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. |