
Bioterror and Biowarfare
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"This comprehensive "beginner's guide" is exactly what has been missing up to now." Professor Kathryn Nixdorff, Chair of the INES Working Group on Biological and Toxin Weapons Control.More details
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- Cover
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Bioterror: threat and response
- Introduction
- An unprecedented world?
- International law
- Arms control and disarmament
- A different model
- Controlling biological weapons
- Outline of the book
- References
- Chapter 2 Biological warfare before 1945
- Introduction
- Microbiology in the late nineteenth century
- Biological warfare in the first world war
- Biological warfare between the wars
- Biological warfare in the second world war
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3 Biological warfare 1945-72
- Introduction
- The united states
- The united kingdom
- Canada
- France
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4 Biological warfare 1972-2004
- Introduction
- Iraq
- South africa
- The soviet union
- Allegations
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5 Biological agents
- Introduction
- Anti-personnel BW agents
- Anti-agriculture biological warfare
- Agent production and dissemination
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6 The impact of the biotechnology revolution
- Introduction
- The BTWC review conferences
- More obvious official concerns
- New-century civil science
- Defence/offence interaction
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7 Attack scenarios today
- Introduction
- Anti-personnel attacks
- Anti-agriculture attacks
- Current terrorism concerns
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8 The web of prevention
- Introduction
- What do we want to stop?
- Intelligence
- Export controls
- Arms control
- Biodefence
- Maintaining the prohibition
- Building the regime
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9 The failure of arms control
- Introduction
- The 1925 Geneva protocol
- The biological and toxin weapons convention
- Deficiencies of the convention
- Confidence-building measures
- VEREX
- Negotiations of the BTWC verification protocol
- The inter-review-conference process
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10 Conclusion: the future?
- Introduction
- Strengthening the web of prevention
- A web of opportunities
- Grasping the opportunities
- References
- Appendix 1 Appeal on biotechnology, weapons and humanity
- Appendix 2 The biological and toxin weapons convention
- Index
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