Deadly cultures : biological weapons since 1945 / / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, and Malcolm Dando, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807737103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-674-26834-2; 0-674-04513-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 479 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Altri autori (Persone): WheelisMark; RozsaLajos <1961->; DandoMalcolm
• Disciplina: 358/.3882/09
• Soggetti: Biological weapons - Testing; Biological weapons - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-461) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Historical context and overview / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, and Malcolm Dando -- The US biological weapons program / John Ellis van Courtland Moon -- The UK biological weapons program / Brian Balmer -- The Canadian biological weapons program and the tripartite alliance / Donald Avery -- The French biological weapons program / Olivier Lepick -- The Soviet biological weapons program / John Hart -- Biological weapons in non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries / Lajos Rozsa and Kathryn Nixdorff -- The Iraqi biological weapons program / Graham S. Pearson -- The South African biological weapons program / Chandre Gould and Alastair Hay -- Anticrop biological weapons programs / Simon M. Whitby -- Antianimal biological weapons programs / Piers Millet -- Midspectrum incapacitant programs / Malcolm Dando and Martin Furmanski -- Allegations of biological weapons use / Martin Furmanski and Mark Wheelis -- Terrorist use of biological weapons / Mark Wheelis and Masaaki Sugishima -- The politics of biological disarmament / Marie Isabelle Chevrier -- Legal constraints on biological weapons / Nicholas A. Sims -- Analysis and implications / Malcolm Dando ... [et al.].
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.