Deadly cultures : biological weapons since 1945 /
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2006. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 479 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196587 |
Summary: | The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots--it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 479 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-461) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674045132 0674045130 9780674016996 0674016998 |