The new biological weapons : threat, proliferation, and control /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dando, Malcolm
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, ©2001.
Temas:
Biological weapons.
Biological arms control.
Biological warfare.
Biological Warfare
Biotechnology
Armes biologiques.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle.
Guerre biologique.
Biotechnologie.
bioengineering.
Biological warfare
Biological arms control
Biological weapons
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Book Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables & Figures""; ""Table 1.1 The Chemical and Biological Warfare Threat Spectrum""; ""Table 2.1 The Phases of the U.S. Offensive Biological Warfare Program""; ""Table 2.2 U.S. Herbicide Usage by Type of Mission""; ""Table 2.3 Plant Hormones and Their Functions""; ""Table 3.1 Some Goals of the Human Genome Project for 1998â€?2003""; ""Table 4.1 Families of Venomous Snakes""; ""Table 4.2 Some Characteristics of Chemical and Toxin Agents""; ""Table 4.3 Comparative Lethality of Toxins in Laboratory Mice""
  • Table 4.4 Categorization of Toxins by ToxicityTable 5.1 Endothelin/Sarafotoxin
  • Table 5.2 Some Effects of Peptides
  • Table 5.3 Some Regulatory Functions of Peptides
  • Table 6.1 Chronology of Different Approaches to Drug Discovery
  • Table 7.1 Amount of Toxin Required for Lethality in Various Attack Scenarios
  • Table 7.2 Nonpeptide Antagonists
  • Table 8.1 Types of Biological Warfare
  • Table 8.2 Lactose Absorption by Adult Population
  • Table 8.3 Some Racial/Ethnic Differences in Single-Gene Disorders
  • Table 9.1 Toxin Assessment According to Criteria for Selecting Toxins as Toxin WeaponsTable 9.2 Toxin Risk Assessment
  • Figure 4.1 Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the Interaction Between Superantigen and MHC Class II and the TCR Complex
  • Figure 5.1 Amino Acid Sequence of Endothelin-1
  • Figure 5.2 Diagrammatic Representation of the Structure of Endothelin
  • Figure 5.3 Amino Acid Sequence of Substance P
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1-Technological Change and Arms Control
  • The Necessity of Arms Control
  • The Nature of Arms Control
  • The Mechanisms of Arms Control
  • The Agenda of Arms Control TodayNew Biological Weapons
  • Outline of the Book
  • 2-Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons
  • Toxin Weapons
  • Bioregulators
  • Deliberate Direct Attacks on Human Chemical Regulatory Systems
  • 3-Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology
  • The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
  • The Chemical Weapons Convention
  • 4-Toxins
  • Natural Toxins
  • Current Military Concerns
  • Defense Against Toxin Weapons
  • Mechanisms of Action
  • The Dilemmas of Dual-Use Technology
  • Futures
  • 5-Bioregulatory Peptides
  • EndothelinSubstance P
  • Neuropeptides in General
  • Neuropeptides as Biological Warfare Agents
  • The Soviet Union
  • 6-Specificity: Receptors
  • Cell Signaling
  • Receptors
  • 7-Agent Delivery
  • Aerobiology
  • Drug Delivery
  • Specific Targets
  • 8-Targets
  • Using Biological Weapons
  • Agricultural Warfare
  • Operating with Toxin Weapons
  • Ethnic Weapons
  • 9-Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened?
  • The General Purpose Criterion and Its Implementation
  • Implementing the CWC
  • Implementing the BTWC

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