Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen

by Eric A. Croddy

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.

Genres: War, Military Fiction, Science

328 pages, Hardcover

First published June 19, 1997

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best book available on the subject

[Patrick Tucker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thorough and enjoyable primer on what constitutes chemical and biological warfare. Some information is now outdated but the basics and historical information is still relevant and interesting.