Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945Harvard University Press, 30.01.2006 - 479 Seiten 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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The Canadian Biological Weapons Program and the Tripartite Alliance | 84 |
The French Biological Weapons Program | 108 |
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program | 132 |
Biological Weapons in NonSoviet Warsaw Pact Countries | 157 |
The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program | 169 |
Midspectrum Incapacitant Programs | 236 |
Allegations of Biological Weapons Use | 252 |
Terrorist Use of Biological Weapons | 284 |
The Politics of Biological Disarmament | 304 |
Legal Constraints on Biological Weapons | 329 |
Analysis and Implications | 355 |
The Biological Weapons Convention | 375 |
Notes | 381 |
The South African Biological Weapons Program | 191 |
Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs | 213 |
Antianimal Biological Weapons Programs | 224 |
Contributors | 463 |
Index | 465 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 379 - Each Party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this Treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country.
Seite 379 - Parties and the deposit of their instruments of ratification. 4. For States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited subsequent to the entry into force of this Treaty, it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or accession.
Seite 379 - Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which arc hereby designated the Depositary Governments.
Seite 380 - Chinese texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Depositary Governments. Duly certified copies of this Treaty shall be transmitted by the Depositary Governments to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States.
Seite 363 - Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices...
Seite 344 - All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Seite 379 - Geneva, Switzerland, in order to review the operation of this Treaty with a view to assuring that the purposes of the Preamble and the provisions of the Treaty are being realized.
Seite 335 - Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, in the name of their respective Governments: Whereas the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices...
Seite 379 - Treaty before its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article may accede to it at any time. 2. This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Governments of the...
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