Preface Abbreviations 1. Historical Context and Overview Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, and Malcolm Dando 2. The US Biological Weapons Program John Ellis van Courtland Moon 3. The UK Biological Weapons Program Brian Balmer 4. The Canadian Biological Weapons Program and the Tripartite Alliance Donald Avery 5. The French Biological Weapons Program Olivier Lepick 6. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program John Hart 7. Biological Weapons in Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries Lajos Rozsa and Kathryn Nixdorff 8. The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program Graham Pearson 9. The South African Biological Weapons Program ChandrE Gould and Alastair Hay 10. Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs Simon Whitby 11. Antianimal Biological Weapons Programs Piers Millet 12. Midspectrum Incapacitant Programs Malcolm Dando and Martin Furmanski 13. Allegations of Biological Weapons Use Martin Furmanski and Mark Wheelis 14. Terrorist Use of Biological Weapons Mark Wheelis and Masaaki Sugishima 15. The Politics of Biological Disarmament Marie Chevrier 16. Legal Constraints on Biological Weapons Nicholas Sims 17. Analysis and Implications Malcolm Dando, Graham Pearson, Lajos Rozsa, Julian Perry Robinson, and Mark Wheelis Appendix. The Biological Weapons Convention Notes Contributors Index
Deadly Cultures provides an indispensable history of biological weapons and warfare since the end of World War II. Written by internationally prominent experts, it contains invaluable information and insights. -- Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Mark Wheelis is Senior Lecturer in the Section of Microbiology at the University of California, Davis. Lajos Rozsa is senior researcher, Animal Ecology Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. Malcolm Dando is Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England.
Deadly Cultures is written eloquently and has been edited superbly.
The chapters have a uniform style and organization; scientific and
political terminology is used in a consistent and correct manner
throughout; and abbreviations are used only where absolutely
necessary. In contrast to most other books on bioweapons, the
editors have almost always used up-to-date taxonomy of biological
agents, as well as the differentiation of agents and the diseases
they cause. The authors also included the original names of all
institutes involved in bioweapons R&D. This is not a trivial
point as French, Iraqi or Russian institute designations have been
translated differently in the past, and were also frequently
changed during decades of reorganization, confusing both analysts
and interested laymen… Deadly Cultures is informative, meticulously
researched, important in its message, and a fabulous read for both
scholars and interested scientists.
*Nature*
[This book] is a survey as accessible in its prose style and
avoidance of unnecessary jargon as it is fair-minded in its
treatment of claims and counter-claims by those involved or
allegedly involved in BW work. This is the book, which will
doubtless remain unrivalled, for anyone wishing to understand the
scientific basis of efforts to harness microorganisms as weapons of
war and terror, the military arguments for and against their use,
and the political context of those developments and arguments.
Alongside individual chapters devoted to the US, UK, French,
Canadian, Soviet, Iraqi, and South African BW programmes, as well
as those in non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries, the book addresses
issues such as anti-crop weapons, anti-animal weapons and the
significance of BW agents in the hands of terrorists… Meticulously
documented with well over 1000 references, the book is as
magnificent in its compilation as its subject matter is horrendous
in its malevolent purpose.
*Biologist*
Deadly Cultures provides an indispensable history of biological
weapons and warfare since the end of World War II. Written by
internationally prominent experts, it contains invaluable
information and insights.
*Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D., Center for Nonproliferation Studies*
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