A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g
ISBN: 978-0-387-95076-1
Verlag: Humana
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.
Zielgruppe
Popular/general
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Weitere Infos & Material
One: Gas, Bugs, and Common Sense.- 1: The Fog of War.- 2: Who Has These Weapons?.- 3: Threats and Responses.- Two: Chemical Agents.- 4: Basic Concepts.- 5: Chemical Warfare: A Brief History.- 6: Control and Disarmament.- Three: Biological Agents.- 7: Basic Concepts.- 8: Biological Warfare: A Brief History.- 9: Control and Disarmament.- 10: Vaccination and Biological Warfare.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.
