Phantom menace or looming threat?
Subtitle: a new framework for assessing bioweapons threats
By: Kathleen Vogel
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781421407425; 9781421407432; 9781421407890
Subjects: Biological arms control; Bioterrorism; Biological weapons; Biological warfare; Risk assessment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bioweapons and national security; title: Technological frames and narratives in U.S. bioweapons assessments and policymaking; title: Synthetic genomics, the biotech revolution, and bioterrorism; title: Soviet bioweapons know-how and proliferation threats; title: Expertise and analytic practice; title: "CNN with secrets": current intelligence reporting and CIA analytic practice; title: Secrecy and the production of the Iraqi mobile bioweapons threat; title: New knowledge models for bioweapons intelligence assessments; title: Conclusion.