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Deadly cultures : biological weapons since 1945 /

The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and address...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wheelis, Mark, Rózsa, Lajos, 1961-, Dando, Malcolm
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical context and overview / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando
  • US biological weapons program / John Ellis van Courtland Moon
  • UK biological weapons program / Brian Balmer
  • Canadian biological weapons program and the tripartite alliance / Donald Avery
  • French biological weapons program / Olivier Lepick
  • Soviet biological weapons program / John Hart
  • Biological weapons in non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries / Lajos Rózsa and Kathryn Nixdorff
  • Iraqi biological weapons program / Graham S. Pearson
  • South African biological weapons program / Chandré Gould and Alastair Hay
  • Anticrop biological weapons programs / Simon M. Whitby
  • Antianimal biological weapons programs / Piers Millet
  • Midspectrum incapacitant programs / Malcolm Dando and Martin Furmanski
  • Allegations of biological weapons use / Martin Furmanski and Mark Wheelis
  • Terrorist use of biological weapons / Mark Wheelis and Masaaki Sugishima
  • Politics of biological disarmament / Marie Isabelle Chevrier
  • Legal constraints on biological weapons / Nicholas A. Sims
  • Analysis and implications / Malcolm Dando [and others].