Bioterror In The 21st Century
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Author | : Daniel M Gerstein |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1612510205 |
Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism in the twenty-first century. He warns that while the proliferation of knowledge and capabilities in the field of biotechnology offers ever-increasing opportunities for scientific breakthroughs, the potential for the misuse of that knowledge also increases. Gerstein takes a classic game theory approach in his analysis of the potential for a bioterror attack in the future. His examination provides an objective capability for assessing threats, understanding emerging trends, and developing mitigation strategies. However, in the end the book is less about predicting future behavior than about understanding the framework in which dangerous capabilities are allowed to proliferate. The study also makes a valuable contribution to the debate over perceived threats and vulnerabilities in this new global environment.
Author | : I.W. Fong |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010-03-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1441912665 |
Compiled by two leading experts in the field, this volume provides a concise, timely, and authoritative review of some of the most problematic infections of the new century. It presents issues and new ideas for preventing and controlling infectious diseases.
Author | : Filippa Lentzos |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2016-07-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1783269499 |
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the politics, people, science and historical roots of contemporary biological threats through up-to-date, rigorous and accessible chapters written by leading academics and supplemented by expert point-of-view contributions and interviews.The book provides inspiration and resources for students and researchers, as well as policy makers in government, the public policy sector and the wider community. It is particularly pertinent for those interested in biological disarmament, non-proliferation, counterterrorism and health security.
Author | : Milton Leitenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biological weapons |
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Author | : David McBride |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2022-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000806766 |
Although at the start of the 21st century bioterrorism was newly feared by the public at large, it is one threat that institutions have attempted to anticipate for years. Originally published in 2003, and now with a new introduction, this unique 2-volume collection provides a multi-disciplinary resource on the challenges bioterrorism poses for American society and institutions, from both legal and political institutions, on one hand, to public health and medical institutions on the other. Volume one documents and analyses the challenge bioterrorism poses to these political, economic and legal institutions, putting bioterrorism into its historical context as a problem discussed and anticipated by government for decades. Volume two documents the challenges bioterrorism poses to public health and public policy as a weapon of disease and fear. The materials in these volumes provide case histories and discourse by specialists relating to the ways that the bioterrorism threat has been perceived and approached by US health and law institutions.
Author | : David McBride |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000289672 |
Originally published in 2003 and now reissued with a new introduction, this collection provides an invaluable, academic resource on the challenges bioterrorism posed for American society and institutions. Critically selected essays from a wide range of disciplines document and analyze the problems and implications for political, economic, and legal institutions, as well as the challenges a weapon of disease and fear can impose on public health and public policy. By placing bioterrorism into its historical context, this collection also traces the academic research and historical decisions that have contributed to the formation of American policies attempting to cope with a potentially catastrophic attack on the population in general and urban population in particular.
Author | : Filippa Lentzos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biological warfare |
ISBN | : 9781783269488 |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biological warfare |
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Author | : Paul Chrystal |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399090836 |
This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the world. For context it traces developments from the earliest primitive but effective days of infectious rams, poison-tipped arrows and plague-infected corpses used as toxic, disease-spreading projectiles, to the twenty-first-century industrial scale weaponization of biomedicine. Paul Chrystal shows how biological weapons and acts of bioterrorism are especially effective at instilling terror, panic, death, famine and economic ruin on a large scale, shredding public confidence in governments and civilization itself. For the disaffected, lethal biological agents are comparatively easy to manufacture and obtain, and they have the benefit of being almost invisible and easy and quick to administer in lethal quantities through a variety of discreet delivery systems. Just what the terrorist wants. We explore the sinister connection between the industrial-scale proliferation of biological weaponry by state actors and the greater opportunities these growing bio-arsenals give to the increasingly scientific-minded and determined terrorist to manufacture his or her weapon of choice, taking advantage also of the state of the art sophisticated delivery systems. The epilogue analyzes the concerted but groundless 2022-2023 disinformation campaign conducted by Russia, with support from China, relating to the claim that public health facilities in Ukraine are 'secret U.S.-funded biolabs', purportedly developing biological weapons.