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019 _a(OCoLC)979723451
020 _a9780801455162
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024 7 _a10.7591/9780801455162
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801455162
035 _a(DE-B1597)478222
035 _a(OCoLC)886740418
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aUG447.8
_b.S583 2016
072 7 _aPOL012000
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082 0 4 _a358.384
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSmith, Frank L.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAmerican Biodefense :
_bHow Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security /
_cFrank L. Smith.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (204 p.) :
_b1 halftone, 1 table, 1 chart
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCornell Studies in Security Affairs
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAcronyms --
_tAmerican Biodefense, from Boston to Baghdad --
_t1. Science and Technology for National Security --
_t2. Stereotypical Neglect of Military Research, Development, and Acquisition for Biodefense --
_t3. Fatal Assumptions --
_t4. An Unlikely Sponsor? --
_tBiodefense and Beyond --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aBiological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending billions of dollars per year on medical countermeasures and biological detection systems. But most of this funding now comes from the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Department of Defense. Why has the U.S. military neglected biodefense and allowed civilian organizations to take the lead in defending the country against biological attacks? In American Biodefense, Frank L. Smith III addresses this puzzling and largely untold story about science, technology, and national security.Smith argues that organizational frames and stereotypes have caused both military neglect and the rise of civilian biodefense. In the armed services, influential ideas about kinetic warfare have undermined defense against biological warfare. The influence of these ideas on science and technology challenges the conventional wisdom that national security policy is driven by threats or bureaucratic interests. Given the ideas at work inside the U.S. military, Smith explains how the lessons learned from biodefense can help solve other important problems that range from radiation weapons to cyber attacks.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aBiological warfare
_zUnited States
_xSafety measures.
650 0 _aBiosecurity
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCivil defense
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aNational security
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International).
_2bisacsh
653 _abioterrorism, biological warfare, weapons of mass destruction, kinetic warfare.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455162
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801455162
856 4 2 _3Cover
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