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Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

Author : Alexander Kelle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786151
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race written by Alexander Kelle and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors. It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy options on how it—and it's devastating consequences—could be avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then addresses the widening gap between them.

Preventing a Biological Arms Race

Author : Susan Wright
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262730969
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Preventing a Biological Arms Race written by Susan Wright and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1991-02-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This source book presents the essential technical, political, legal, and historical background needed for informed judgments about the recent expansion of military interest in the life sciences - particularly in the weapons potential of the new biotechnology. Preventing a Biological Arms Race develops the case for strengthening national and international commitments to biological disarmament and proposes courses of action to achieve this goal."In theory," Susan Wright observes, "the menace of biological warfare should no longer be with us." Developing, producing, and stockpiling biological weapons are unconditionally banned by international treaty. East-West military rivalry and confrontations in the Middle East have eroded confidence in the treaty regime, however. The advent of genetic engineering and other new biotechnologies has revived military interest in biological weaponry, generating concern about the potential weapons applications of biological research.The 15 contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines include a history of U.S. biological warfare policy, analyses of the ethical issues posed by defensive biological warfare research, case studies of alleged violations of the international legal regime prohibiting biological weapons, reviews of that regime, and proposals for strengthening the barriers to biological warfare. A series of 14 appendixes collect important data and documents related to biological weapons."Contributors: Barton J. Bernstein, Gordon Burck, Leonard A. Cole, Richard Falk, Jeanne Guillemin, John Isaacs, Stuart Ketcham, Jonathan King, Marc Lappé, Matthew Meselson, Richard Novick, Charles Piller, Julian Perry Robinson, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Seth Shulman, Nicholas A. Sims, Robert L. Sinsheimer, Harlee Strauss, Susan Wright, Keith R. Yamamoto.

Prevention of a Biological and Toxin Arms Race and the Responsibility of Scientists

Author : Erhard Geissler
Publisher : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prevention of a Biological and Toxin Arms Race and the Responsibility of Scientists written by Erhard Geissler and published by De Gruyter Akademie Forschung. This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Preventing Chemical Weapons

Author : Michael Crowley
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1788014723
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Chemical Weapons written by Michael Crowley and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons. Such concerns are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, which could fuel a desire by certain States to retain and use existing chemical weapons, as well as increase State interest in creating new weapons; whilst a broader range of actors may seek to employ diverse toxic chemicals as improvised weapons. Stark indications of the multi-faceted dangers we face can be seen in the chemical weapons attacks against civilians and combatants in Iraq and Syria, and also in more targeted chemical assassination operations in Malaysia and the UK. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, and drawing upon an international group of experts, this book analyses current and likely near-future advances in relevant science and technology, assessing the risks of their misuse. The book examines the current capabilities, limitations and failures of the existing international arms control and disarmament architecture – notably the Chemical Weapons Convention – in preventing the development and use of chemical weapons. Through the employment of a novel Holistic Arms Control methodology, the authors also look beyond the bounds of such treaties, to explore the full range of international law, international agreements and regulatory mechanisms potentially applicable to weapons employing toxic chemical agents, in order to develop recommendations for more effective routes to combat their proliferation and misuse. A particular emphasis is given to the roles that chemical and life scientists, health professionals and wider informed activist civil society can play in protecting the prohibition against poison and chemical weapons; and in working with States to build effective and responsive measures to ensure that the rapid scientific and technological advances are safeguarded from hostile use and are instead employed for the benefit of us all.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164753
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful ways-leading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalization of scientific and technical expertise also means that many scientists and other individuals around the world are generating breakthroughs in the life sciences and related technologies. The risks posed by bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological weapons capabilities have increased concern about how the rapid advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology could enable the production of biological weapons with unique and unpredictable characteristics. Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of Life Sciences examines current trends and future objectives of research in public health, life sciences, and biomedical science that contain applications relevant to developments in biological weapons 5 to 10 years into the future and ways to anticipate, identify, and mitigate these dangers.

Chemical and Biological Warfare

Author : Eric Croddy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810832718
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Chemical and Biological Warfare written by Eric Croddy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of this form of warfare, information on chemical agents themselves, as well as regulation, controls, and disposal policies. Scientific research on CBW, extending as far back as 1940 is organized under categories of CBW agents and their corresponding subheadings.

War and Public Health

Author : Barry S. Levy
Publisher : American Public Health Association
ISBN 13 : 9780875530239
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book War and Public Health written by Barry S. Levy and published by American Public Health Association. This book was released on 2000 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biological Warfare and Disarmament

Author : Susan Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742524699
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Biological Warfare and Disarmament written by Susan Wright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons

Author : Malcolm Dando
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137381825
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons by : Malcolm Dando

Download or read book Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons written by Malcolm Dando and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

Biological Weapons

Author : Jeanne Guillemin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231129432
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Biological Weapons written by Jeanne Guillemin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely account of how resources for biological weapons programs were mobilized and why such weapons have never been deployed in major conflicts offers an understanding of the relevance of the historical restraints placed on the use of biological weapons and looks at what can to done to prevent their proliferation in the post-September 11th world.

The Role and Control of Weapons in the 1990s

Author : Frank Barnaby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371298
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Role and Control of Weapons in the 1990s written by Frank Barnaby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, examines defence issues as the twentieth century drew to a close. With the end of the Cold War, many of the threats to European security, such as the threat of nuclear war, disappeared. New ones, however, were emerging. The rise of nationalism, the spread of weapons of mass destruction to politically unstable countries, the increase in world population, the debt crisis – all these contributed to security problems that needed to be resolved. The book assesses the possibilities for future European defence and the role that the United States would play in it: will it be prepared to stay in Europe under European leadership, or must it dominate? It also considers the capabilities offered by new military technology and the need for control of weapons of mass destruction.

Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use

Author : Malcolm R. Dando
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030537900
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use written by Malcolm R. Dando and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses recent brain research and the potentially dangerous dual-use applications of the findings of these research projects. The book is divided into three sections: Part I examines the rise in dual-use concerns within various state’s chemical and biological non-proliferation regime’s during this century, as well as the rapid technologically driven advances in neuroscience and the associated possible misuse considerations in the same period. Part II reviews the brain research projects in the EU, USA, Japan, China and several other countries with regard to their objectives, achievements and measures to deal with the problem of dual-use. Part III assesses the extent to which the results of this civil neuroscience work, which is intended to be benign, are being, and could be protected against future hostile applications in the development of novel chemical and biological weapons.

Chemical and Biological Weapons

Author : E. Spiers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375642
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Chemical and Biological Weapons written by E. Spiers and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-08-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...his previous forays into this subject have made him the Chemical Biological Weapons professionals' author and this book does nothing to diminish this view. It is also timely.' - British Army Review An analysis of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons which examines the attractions and utility of these weapons for some developing states, the difficulties encountered in trying to control their spread, and the lessons from the Rabta controversy and the Gulf War. It reviews the evolution of American chemical weapons policy under the Bush administration, the implications of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the problems posed by the inherently dynamic nature of these weapons and their tactical flexibility.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Controlling the Weapons of War

Author : Brian Rappert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134169019
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Controlling the Weapons of War written by Brian Rappert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the predicaments associated with imposing classifications about the relative acceptability of force and what is accomplished in their strategies for doing so. It develops these issues through combining thematic and conceptual analysis with the examination of varied cases of prohibitions on ‘conventional’ and ‘unconventional’ weapons through customary and statutory laws, multilateral treaties, UN resolutions, and national legislation. The book will appeal to students of security studies, military technology, peace studies, international relations and discourse theory.

Bio-Imperialism

Author : Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978815166
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Bio-Imperialism written by Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bio-Imperialism focuses on an understudied dimension of the war on terror: the fight against bioterrorism. This component of the war enlisted the biosciences and public health fields to build up the U.S. biodefense industry and U.S. global disease control. The book argues that U.S. imperial ambitions drove these shifts in focus, aided by gendered and racialized discourses on terrorism, disease, and science. These narratives helped rationalize American research expansion into dangerous germs and bioweapons in the name of biodefense and bolstered the U.S. rationale for increased interference in the disease control decisions of Global South nations. Bio-Imperialism is a sobering look at how the war on terror impacted the world in ways that we are only just starting to grapple with.