Biological Weapons
Subtitle: Limiting the Threat (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: May 7, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262621281
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Chemical & biological weapons; Political science & theory; Politics / Current Events; Military Science; Technology; Science/Mathematics; United States; Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Biological arms control; Biological weapons; Military policy
First sentence: The transcendence of biological warfare (BW)-over medicine and public health, private criminal acts, terrorism, interstate warfare, and international law directed at the elimination of BW-makes this one of the most intricate topics of discourse, poses very difficult security problems, and opens some novel challenges in the ethical domain.