Biological weapons [electronic resource] : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / Jeanne Guillemin.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.Description: xii, 258 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 358/.3882/09 22
LOC classification:
  • UG447.8 .G85 2005eb
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Contents:
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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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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