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Barriers to Bioweapons : The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801471933
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Barriers to BioweaponsDDC classification:
  • 358/.388
LOC classification:
  • UG447.8
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Bioproliferation Puzzle -- 2. The Acquisition and Use of Specialized Knowledge -- 3. Impediments and Facilitators of Bioweapons Development -- 4. The American Bioweapons Program: Struggling with a Split Personality Disorder -- 5. The Soviet Bioweapons Program: Failed Integration -- 6. Small Bioweapons Programs and the Constraints of Covertness -- 7. Preventing Bioweapons Developments: Policy Implications -- Appendix 1: American Bioweapons Program: Contractors -- Appendix 2: American Bioweapons Program: Approximate Budget Figures -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley shows that bioweapons development is a difficult, protracted, and expensive endeavor, rarely achieving the expected results whatever the magnitude of investment.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Bioproliferation Puzzle -- 2. The Acquisition and Use of Specialized Knowledge -- 3. Impediments and Facilitators of Bioweapons Development -- 4. The American Bioweapons Program: Struggling with a Split Personality Disorder -- 5. The Soviet Bioweapons Program: Failed Integration -- 6. Small Bioweapons Programs and the Constraints of Covertness -- 7. Preventing Bioweapons Developments: Policy Implications -- Appendix 1: American Bioweapons Program: Contractors -- Appendix 2: American Bioweapons Program: Approximate Budget Figures -- Notes -- Index.

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley shows that bioweapons development is a difficult, protracted, and expensive endeavor, rarely achieving the expected results whatever the magnitude of investment.

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