Future of Biological Weapons

Name: Future of Biological Weapons
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ISBN: 9780275941000

ISBN-10: 0275941000

ISBN-13: 9780275941000

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Authors: Barend ter Haar, Walter Laqueur, Brad Roberts

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The know-how and materials required to produce biological warfare agents are the same as those required for medical and veterinary products; biological warfare technology is quickly spreading across the globe. In this new study, Barend ter Haar argues that a policy of nonproliferation might slow down the current trend toward worldwide deployment of biological weapons, but it is ultimately doomed without a strengthened ban on them. Ter Haar discusses the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, which did not categorically prohibit activities leading to biological weapons and failed to provide confidence-building measures and allegation procedures. He evaluates the confidence measures added in…

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List price: $95.00
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 6/19/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword


Summary


Introduction


A Short History of Biological Arms Control


The Current State of the Biological Weapons Convention


The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Model for the Biological Weapons Convention


What Can Be Done?


Appendixes


Index