Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen. This item is unavailable.Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) 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, allowing organizations of just a few dozen people to deploy potentially devastating attacks. While in the twentieth century most arms-control efforts 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.