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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.
The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) 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, allowing organizations of just a
few dozen people to deploy potentially devastating attacks. While
in the twentieth century most arms-control efforts 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.
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