Biological weapons

Guillemin, Jeanne, 1943-

Biological weapons from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / [electronic resource] : Jeanne Guillemin. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. - xii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.

Biological agents and disease transmission -- The United Kingdom and biological warfare : the remorseless advance of military science -- The United States in World War II : industrial scale and secrecy -- Secret sharing and the Japanese biological weapons program (1934-1945) -- Aiming for nuclear scale : the Cold War and the US biological warfare program -- The Nixon decision -- The Soviet biological weapons program -- Bioterrorism and the threat of proliferation -- National security and the biological weapons threat -- Biological weapons : restraints against proliferation.


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Biological warfare--History.
Bioterrorism.


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