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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Sonia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Biological arms control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle > États-Unis.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle > Ex-URSS.
Biological arms control > United States.
Biological arms control > Former Soviet republics.
United States.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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