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1 online resource (388 pages) |
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880-01 Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Encyclopedia; Acknowledgments; Introductory Essays : Chemical and Biological Warfare as Weapons of Mass Destruction: A U.S. Perspective; World War II-Prepared for CBW; WMD in the Cold War; Conclusion: CBW-Low Risk, High Consequence; Notes; Nuclear Weapons; Was There a Nuclear Revolution?; Nuclear Weapons Effects: A Primer; Living with the Bomb; A; Abrin; Further Reading; Accidental Nuclear War; Further Reading; Agroterrorism (Agricultural Biological Warfare); Vulnerability of Livestock; Food Security: "Farm to Fork." |
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880-01/Grek Chemical Weapons ConventionDeá¼€nition of a Chemical Weapon; Background; Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW); Schedule 1, 2, and 3 Chemicals; Implementation of the CWC; Further Reading; Chernobyl; Further Reading; China, People's Republic of; Chemical Weapons; Biological Weapons; Nuclear Weapons; Further Reading; Chlorine Gas; Background; Chlorine Gas at Ypres, April 22, 1915; Chlorine Gas as a Modern Weapon; Further Reading; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Further Reading; Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Nunn-Lugar Program); Organizational Elements of CTR |
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Targeting Crops and Animals: World War I and World War IICold War Activity; Defense against Livestock Diseases; Further Reading; Airborne Alert; Further Reading; Al Qaeda; Further Reading; Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil; Background; Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995; Dual Use for Industry and Terrorism; Further Reading; Anthrax; Background; History; Bioterrorism; U.S. Anthrax Attack, 2001; Current Anthrax Defensive Research; Further Reading; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; Negotiation of the Treaty; Terms of the Treaty; Relationship of the Treaty to Other Treaties; Problems Interpreting the ABM Treaty |
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The U.S. Decision to Withdraw from the ABM TreatyFurther Reading; Antinuclear Movement; Early Efforts; The Test Ban Movement; Movement against Commercial Use; Nuclear Freeze; Humanitarian Initiative; Further Reading; Anti-Satellite Weapons; Further Reading; Arms Control; Arms Control Objectives; Determining Success or Failure; The Process of Arms Control Negotiations; Arms Control after the Cold War; Further Reading; Aum Shinrikyo; Further Reading; Australia Group; History; Technical Details; Current Status; Further Reading; B; Baruch Plan; Further Reading; Bikini Island; Further Reading |
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Binary Chemical MunitionsOther Designs; Further Reading; Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; Background; Makings of a Convention; Current Status; Further Reading; Bioregulators; Research in the Former Soviet Union; Bioregulators of Importance; Further Reading; Blood Agents; Cyanide; Cyanogen Chloride (CN); Other Systemic Poisons; Further Reading; Botulism (Botulinum Toxin); Background; History; Medical Response to Botulism; Further Reading; Brinkmanship; Further Reading; Broken Arrow; Further Reading; Brucellosis (Brucella Bacterium); Background; Technical Aspects; Further Reading; C |
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CTR Termination |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Larsen, Jeffrey A
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Wirtz, James J
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| ISBN |
9781440855757 |
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1440855757 |
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