Chemical and Biological Warfare (eBook)

A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

Eric Croddy (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2011
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4613-0025-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2011
• Co-Autor: J. Hart, C. Perez-Armendariz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4613-0025-8 / 1461300258
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-0025-0 / 9781461300250