Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780804786157
ISBN-13 : 0804786151
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Book Synopsis Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race by : Alexander Kelle

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.


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