ISBN:
9781461300250
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXII, 306 p)
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online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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Keywords:
Science (General)
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Science.
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Social sciences.
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Humanities.
Abstract:
The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW), as Eric Coddy shows in this introduction for the concerned layman, are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen, including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes, methods of deployment and defensive response, and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4613-0025-0
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