Barriers to bioweapons : the challenges of expertise and organization for weapons development /

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In both the popular imagination and among lawmakers and national security experts, there exists the belief that with sufficient motivation and material resources, states or terrorist groups can produce bioweapons easily, cheaply, and successfully. In Barriers to Bioweapons, Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormle...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Sonia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Cornell studies in security affairs.
Subjects:
Biological arms control > Former Soviet republics.
Biological arms control > United States.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle > Ex-URSS.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle > États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
Biological arms control
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The bio-proliferation puzzle
  • The acquisition and use of specialized knowledge
  • Impediments and facilitators of bioweapons developments: organization
  • Management and exogenous factors
  • The American bioweapons program: scientific progress, operational failure
  • The Soviet bioweapons program: failed integration
  • Small bioweapons programs and the constraints of covertness
  • Preventing bioweapons developments: policy implications
  • American bioweapons program: contractors
  • American bioweapons program: approximate budget figures.

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