Twenty-First Century Weapons Proliferation: Are We Ready?James M. Ludes, Henry Sokolski Routledge, 2014 M01 14 - 208 pages Leading US security practitioners fromt he Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, plus other experts on proliferation, clarify the weapons proliferation threats that the US and its allies will face, and suggest what new policies their governments should consider. |
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... chemical and biological warfare technology. In this century, they are much more cheaply acquired than they used to be. Moreover, the disarming lure of democracy does not seem to take on Muslim nations where gifted young men and women ...
... chemical and biological warfare technology. In this century, they are much more cheaply acquired than they used to be. Moreover, the disarming lure of democracy does not seem to take on Muslim nations where gifted young men and women ...
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... chemical and biological weapons - blundered down this path, killing its own people. It launched 12 attacks, which all fizzled. It had the scenario figured out: a subway train acts like a giant piston and could move enough nerve gas to ...
... chemical and biological weapons - blundered down this path, killing its own people. It launched 12 attacks, which all fizzled. It had the scenario figured out: a subway train acts like a giant piston and could move enough nerve gas to ...
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... biological weapons, there was no detection gear at all. Fortunately, the wind was blowing at our backs until the war ended. As we later learned, Iraq's generals had chemical-tipped shells deployed, ready to fire. But they did not ...
... biological weapons, there was no detection gear at all. Fortunately, the wind was blowing at our backs until the war ended. As we later learned, Iraq's generals had chemical-tipped shells deployed, ready to fire. But they did not ...
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... chemical and biological weapons capabilities, public concern about strategic weapons proliferation has only grown. Smaller nations' interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, which had waned in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is again on ...
... chemical and biological weapons capabilities, public concern about strategic weapons proliferation has only grown. Smaller nations' interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, which had waned in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is again on ...
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... chemical and biological agents, he points out, is limited. As for their terrorist use, this is rarer still: since 1970 there have been 12 chemical or biological attacks in the USA and only one fatality. This does not mean such attacks ...
... chemical and biological agents, he points out, is limited. As for their terrorist use, this is rarer still: since 1970 there have been 12 chemical or biological attacks in the USA and only one fatality. This does not mean such attacks ...
Contents
HOW APPROPRIATE IS OUR RESPONSE? | |
PART III IS THERE CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM? | |
Notes on Contributors | |
Index | |
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