Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW), as Eric Coddy shows in this introduction for the concerned layman, are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen, including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes, methods of deployment and defensive response, and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation.

Eric Croddy specializes in open-source intelligence. He has written or edited four books concerning chemical and biological warfare. From 2003-2017, Eric worked as an intelligence analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, focusing on Chinese nuclear weapons programs, the People's Liberation Army Strategic Rocket Forces, and cross-strait security issues.