04262nam 22008054a 450 991077818780332120230829000152.00-674-26834-20-674-04513-010.4159/9780674045132(CKB)1000000000786839(EBL)3300058(OCoLC)923108980(SSID)ssj0000135379(PQKBManifestationID)11148991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135379(PQKBWorkID)10056376(PQKB)10030200(MiAaPQ)EBC3300058(DE-B1597)457801(OCoLC)1013962379(OCoLC)1029820145(OCoLC)1032682809(OCoLC)1037982083(OCoLC)1041973345(OCoLC)1046612668(OCoLC)1047005821(OCoLC)431364190(OCoLC)979910054(DE-B1597)9780674045132(Au-PeEL)EBL3300058(CaPaEBR)ebr10312763(EXLCZ)99100000000078683920050519d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDeadly cultures biological weapons since 1945 /editors, Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, Malcolm DandoCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20061 online resource (xi, 479 pages) illustrations, mapsDescription based upon print version of record.0-674-01699-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-461) and index.Historical context and overview / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, 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 Rózsa and Kathryn Nixdorff -- The Iraqi biological weapons program / Graham S. Pearson -- The South African biological weapons program / Chandré 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.].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.Biological weaponsTestingBiological weaponsResearchBiological weaponsCanadaHistoryBiological weaponsCanadaTestingBiological weaponsResearchCanadaUnited StatesMilitary relationsCanadaBiological weaponsTesting.Biological weaponsResearch.Biological weaponsHistory.Biological weaponsTesting.Biological weaponsResearch358/.3882/09Rózsa Lajos1462657Wheelis Mark65039Rózsa Lajos1961-1462657Dando Malcolm1095290MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778187803321Deadly cultures3671725UNINA