Pre-Owned Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen Hardcover

9780387950761. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2002 ed. Language: English. Pages: 306. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 306 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white. 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.