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"Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race" responds to a growing concern
that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could
lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons
(CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical
material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control,
the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated
to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue
states, or even non-state actors.
It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the
academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be
looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy
options on how it--and it's devastating consequences--could be
avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime
structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical
Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps
and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then
addresses the widening gap between them.
Biotechnology is vital to counter biological and toxin weapons.
Without biotechnology, the detection, identification and diagnoses
of, and medical countermeasures to such weapons would be virtually
impossible. As biological and toxin agents occur in natural
outbreaks of disease or intoxications, there are both civil and
military benefit to be had from the use of biotechnology in
providing effective countermeasures to such agents. The role of
biotechnology in countering biological and toxin weapons is here
addressed under seven major headings: The wider political and
economic contexts; Enabling technologies for BTW agent detection;
The applicability of biotechnological methods for BTW agent
detection on the battlefield, in a terrorist incident, and in an
inspection environment; Pre-exposure medical countermeasures;
Diagnosis and identification; Post-exposure treatment and
decontamination; Contribution of biotechnology to strengthening
international conventions against BTW agents.
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