The New Biological Weapons : : Threat, Proliferation, and Control / / Malcolm Dando.
Current revolutions in biotechnology and neuroscience are changing military technologies, necessitating dramatic reevaluations in arms regulatory regimes. This book assesses how these new technologies can be used in weapons systems—by governments and terrorists alike—and whether this frightening dev...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (181 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables & Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Technological Change and Arms Control
- 2 Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons
- 3 Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology
- 4 Toxins
- 5 Bioregulatory Peptides
- 6 Specificity: Receptors
- 7 Agent Delivery
- 8 Targets
- 9 Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened?
- 10 The Future of Arms Control
- Acronyms & Abbreviations
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the Book