This source book presents the essential technical, political,
legal, and historical background needed for informed judgments
about the recent expansion of military interest in the life
sciences - particularly in the weapons potential of the new
biotechnology. Preventing a Biological Arms Race develops the case
for strengthening national and international commitments to
biological disarmament and proposes courses of action to achieve
this goal."In theory," Susan Wright observes, "the menace of
biological warfare should no longer be with us." Developing,
producing, and stockpiling biological weapons are unconditionally
banned by international treaty. East-West military rivalry and
confrontations in the Middle East have eroded confidence in the
treaty regime, however. The advent of genetic engineering and other
new biotechnologies has revived military interest in biological
weaponry, generating concern about the potential weapons
applications of biological research.The 15 contributions by experts
from a wide range of disciplines include a history of U.S.
biological warfare policy, analyses of the ethical issues posed by
defensive biological warfare research, case studies of alleged
violations of the international legal regime prohibiting biological
weapons, reviews of that regime, and proposals for strengthening
the barriers to biological warfare. A series of 14 appendixes
collect important data and documents related to biological
weapons."Contributors: Barton J. Bernstein, Gordon Burck, Leonard
A. Cole, Richard Falk, Jeanne Guillemin, John Isaacs, Stuart
Ketcham, Jonathan King, Marc Lappe, Matthew Meselson, Richard
Novick, Charles Piller, Julian Perry Robinson, Barbara Hatch
Rosenberg, Seth Shulman, Nicholas A. Sims, Robert L. Sinsheimer,
Harlee Strauss, Susan Wright, Keith R. Yamamoto."
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