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The New Biological Weapons : Threat, Proliferation, and Control / Malcolm Dando.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (181 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781588261786
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/745 22
LOC classification:
  • JZ5830 .D36 2001eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables & Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Technological Change and Arms Control -- 2 Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons -- 3 Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology -- 4 Toxins -- 5 Bioregulatory Peptides -- 6 Specificity: Receptors -- 7 Agent Delivery -- 8 Targets -- 9 Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened? -- 10 The Future of Arms Control -- Acronyms & Abbreviations -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Current revolutions in biotechnology and neuroscience are changing military technologies, necessitating dramatic reevaluations in arms regulatory regimes. This book assesses how these new technologies can be used in weapons systems—by governments and terrorists alike—and whether this frightening development can be brought under effective international control. Dando begins by surveying the existing (and arguably inadequate) control mechanisms for chemical and biological weapons. He then discusses how earlier generations of toxin and bioregulatory weapons have been developed by such states as Iraq, the former Soviet Union, and the U.S. and explains, in nontechnical terms, the scientific advances that have implications for new weapons technology. Considering how international law might be applied to constrain undesirable military developments without restricting technological developments for peaceful purposes, Dando concludes with a proposal for an integrated control regime that would link international agreements, national legislation, and trade regulations.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables & Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Technological Change and Arms Control -- 2 Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons -- 3 Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology -- 4 Toxins -- 5 Bioregulatory Peptides -- 6 Specificity: Receptors -- 7 Agent Delivery -- 8 Targets -- 9 Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened? -- 10 The Future of Arms Control -- Acronyms & Abbreviations -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Book

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Current revolutions in biotechnology and neuroscience are changing military technologies, necessitating dramatic reevaluations in arms regulatory regimes. This book assesses how these new technologies can be used in weapons systems—by governments and terrorists alike—and whether this frightening development can be brought under effective international control. Dando begins by surveying the existing (and arguably inadequate) control mechanisms for chemical and biological weapons. He then discusses how earlier generations of toxin and bioregulatory weapons have been developed by such states as Iraq, the former Soviet Union, and the U.S. and explains, in nontechnical terms, the scientific advances that have implications for new weapons technology. Considering how international law might be applied to constrain undesirable military developments without restricting technological developments for peaceful purposes, Dando concludes with a proposal for an integrated control regime that would link international agreements, national legislation, and trade regulations.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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