Deadly Cultures : : Biological Weapons since 1945 / / Lajos Rózsa; Mark WHEELIS, Lajos Rozsa, Malcolm Dando.

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• VerfasserIn: Rózsa, Lajos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dando, Malcolm,; Rozsa, Lajos,; WHEELIS, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated biological weapons programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Historical Context And Overview / Wheelis, Mark / Rózsa, Lajos / Dando, Malcolm -- Chapter 2. The Us Biological Weapons Program / Courtland Moon, John Ellis van -- Chapter 3. The Uk Biological Weapons Program / Balmer, Brian -- Chapter 4. The Canadian Biological Weapons Program And The Tripartite Alliance / Avery, Donald -- Chapter 5. The French Biological Weapons Program / Lepick, Olivier -- Chapter 6. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program / Hart, John -- Chapter 7. Biologicalweapons In Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries / Rózsa, Lajos / Nixdorff, Kathryn -- Chapter 8. The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program / Pearson, Graham S. -- Chapter 9. The South African Biologicalweapons Program / Gould, Chandré / Hay, Alastair -- Chapter 10. Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs / Whitby, Simon M. -- Chapter 11. Antianimal Biological Weapons Programs / Millett, Piers -- Chapter 12. Midspectrum Incapacitant Programs / Dando, Malcolm / Furmanski, Martin -- Chapter 13. Allegations Of Biological Weapons Use / Furmanski, Martin / Wheelis, Mark -- Chapter 14. Terrorist Use Of Biologicalweapons / Wheelis, Mark / Sugishima, Masaaki -- Chapter 15. The Politics Of Biological Disarmament / Chevrier, Marie Isabelle -- Chapter 16. Legal Constraints On Biologicalweapons / Sims, Nicholas A. -- Chapter 17. Analysis And Implications / Dando, Malcolm / Pearson, Graham / Rózsa, Lajos / Robinson, Julian Perry / Wheelis, Mark -- Appendix. Convention On The Prohibition Of The Development, Production And Stockpiling Of Bacteriological (Biological) And Toxinweapons And On Their Destruction -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index