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Germ gambits : the bioweapons dilemma, Iraq and beyond / Amy E. Smithson.
LIBRA UG447.8 .S585 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smithson, Amy E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq--History.
- United Nations.
- United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq.
- Biological arms control--Verification--Iraq--History.
- Biological arms control.
- Biological arms control--Verification.
- History.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 368 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- For Decades the Ability to Ascertain whether states are hiding germ weapons programs has been nonexistent because the 1975 bioweapons ban has no inspection measures. Yet, in 1995 a small United Nations inspection, corps pulled off a spectacular bioweapons verification feat in the face of concerted resistance from Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Working from sketchy intelligence-and hampered by the Iraqis' extensive concealment and deception measures-the inspectors busted open Iraq's cover stories and wrested a confession of biowarfare agent production from Baghdad.
- Germ Gambits tells that compelling story through the firsthand accounts of the inspectors who took the lid off Iraq's bioweapons program and pulled off an improbable victory for peace and international security. Most importantly, the book lays out both the inspectors' blueprint to "get it right" with regard to current and future verification challenges associated with the bioweapons ban, and the author's own roadmap to address the overall biological threats facing the world today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- UNSCOM's inception and infancy
- UNSCOM's initial biological inspections
- From hiatus to the hunt
- UNSCOM shreds Iraq's cover stories
- Defection and artifice
- Inspections in a fact-free zone
- Tentacles and disintegration
- Lessons experienced I : inspection prerequisites
- Lessons experienced II : sharpening the tools of inspection
- Gambits present and future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804775526
- 0804775524
- 9780804775533
- 0804775532
- OCLC:
- 712931463
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