Understanding Understanding

The Armaments Of Chemical And Biological Warfare (cbw) 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. Part One: Gas, Bugs, And Common Sense. Chapter 1: The Fog Of War -- Chapter 2: Who Has These Weapons? -- Chapter 3: Threats And Responses -- Part Two: Chemical Agents. Chapter 4: Basic Concepts -- Chapter 5: Chemical Warfare: A Brief History -- Chapter 6: Control And Disarmament -- Part Three: Biological Agents. Chapter 7: Basic Concepts -- Chapter 8: Biological Warfare: A Brief History -- Chapter 9: Control And Disarmament -- Chapter 10: Vaccination And Biological Warfare. [by] Humphry Osmond, With John A. Osmundsen And Jerome Agel. A Duplicate Copy Of This Title Was Part Of The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, But Was Not Retained. Includes Bibliographical References.