Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race.

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Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelle, Alexander
Other Authors: Nixdorff, Kathryn, Dando, Malcolm
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Chemical arms control.
Biological arms control.
Armes chimiques > Contrôle.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Arms Control.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and Figures; 1. Arms Dynamics, the Changing Threat Environment, and the Chemical and Biological Weapons Prohibition Regimes; 2. Threats to the CBW Prohibition Regimes: The Changing Nature of Warfare; 3. Threats to the CBW Prohibition Regimes: The Revolution in the Life Sciences; 4. Threats to the CBW Prohibition Regimes: Advances in Neuroscience; 5. Threats to the CBW Prohibition Regimes: Biodefense Pushed Too Far; 6. Embedding the CBW Prohibition Regimes in the Web of Responses; 7. Evolution of the BW Prohibition Regime: Assessing Achievements and Weaknesses.
  • 8. Evolution of the CW Prohibition Regime: Assessing Achievements and WeaknessesConclusion; Works Cited; Index.

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