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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wheelis, Mark.

Rózsa, Lajos, 1961-

Dando, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biological weapons--Testing.

Biological weapons--Research.

Biological weapons.

Physical Description:

xi, 479 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Historical Context and Overview / Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, Malcolm Dando 1

2 The US Biological Weapons Program / John Ellis van Courtland Moon 9

3 The UK Biological Weapons Program / Brian Balmer 47

4 The Canadian Biological Weapons Program and the Tripartite Alliance / Donald Avery 84

5 The French Biological Weapons Program / Olivier Lepick 108

6 The Soviet Biological Weapons Program / John Hart 132

7 Biological Weapons in Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries / Lajos Rozsa, Kathryn Nixdorff 157

8 The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program / Graham S. Pearson 169

9 The South African Biological Weapons Program / Chandre Gould, Alastair Hay 191

10 Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs / Simon M. Whitby 213

11 Antianimal Biological Weapons Programs / Piers Millet 224

12 Midspectrum Incapacitant Programs / Malcolm Dando, Martin Furmanski 236

13 Allegations of Biological Weapons Use / Martin Furmanski, Mark Wheelis 252

14 Terrorist Use of Biological Weapons / Mark Wheelis, Masaaki Sugishima 284

15 The Politics of Biological Disarmament / Marie Isabelle Chevrier 304

16 Legal Constraints on Biological Weapons / Nicholas A. Sims 329

17 Analysis and Implications / Malcolm Dando, Graham Pearson, Lajos Rozsa, Julian Perry Robinson, Mark Wheelis 355

Appendix The Biological Weapons Convention 375.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-461) and index.

ISBN:

0674016998

OCLC:

60500637