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.
- ISBN13 9780387950761
- Publish Date 26 November 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Imprint Copernicus Books
- Edition 2002 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 306
- Language English