Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats
Intriguing, original, and deeply informed. Focusing on potential threats, Vogel shows in engaging historical detail that technical problems are inherently social. She has made an important scholarly contribution to science and technology studies and to studies of intelligence. At the same time, she speaks directly to the policy world. The combination of depth of scholarship and practical implication is remarkable.(Lynn Eden, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threatsshould be in any political science and military collection and provides a powerful argument for a major shift in how bioweapons threats are assessed.(Midwest Book Review)This is an engrossing book that exemplifies what STS can bring to broader issues of policymaking in the US and potentially beyond, and it is well worth reading.(Carla NappiNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society)Kathleen Vogel has authored one of the most important books written about biological weapons in recent years... Vogel tackles head-on the conventional wisdom regarding the biological weapon (BW) threat, successfully, challenging assumptions that have gone largely unexamined by the broader biodefense community... She also uncovers some deeper organizational and social forces that have shaped US intelligence and threat assessments since the end of international security, not just those with an interest in biodefense or intelligence. This, this book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners in the field of international security, not just those with an interest in biodefense or intelligence.(Gregory D. KoblentzNonproliferation Review)