Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

Croddy, Eric; Perez-Armendariz, C.; Hart, J.

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.

Details

Published by: Copernicus

Publication Date: 2012-09-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781461265207

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0025-0

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 306