Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? : A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogel, Kathleen M., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Biological arms control.
Bioterrorisme > Évaluation du risque.
Guerre biologique > Évaluation du risque.
Armes biologiques > Évaluation du risque.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle.
Bioterrorism > Risk assessment.
Biological warfare > Risk assessment.
Biological weapons > Risk assessment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bioweapons and national security
  • Technological frames and narratives in U.S. bioweapons assessments and policymaking
  • Synthetic genomics, the biotech revolution, and bioterrorism
  • Soviet bioweapons know-how and proliferation threats
  • Expertise and analytic practice
  • "CNN with secrets": current intelligence reporting and CIA analytic practice
  • Secrecy and the production of the Iraqi mobile bioweapons threat
  • New knowledge models for bioweapons intelligence assessments
  • Conclusion.

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