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Biological Threats in the 21st Century
Edited by Filippa Lentzos (King’s College London, UK)
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iological 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 will provide 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.
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Chapter 1: Editor’s introduction: The politics, people, science &
historical roots (Filippa Lentzos)
Chapter 2: Crossing the normative barrier: Japan’s biological warfare
in China in World War II (Jeanne Guillemin)
Section I: Past proliferators
Chapter 3: The British, United States & Canadian biological warfare
programs (Brian Balmer & John Ellis van Courtland Moon)
Point of View: Open-air biowarfare testing: American and British
experiences (Leonard A. Cole)
Chapter 4: The Soviet biological warfare program (Jens H. Kuhn &
Milton Leitenberg)
Point of View: Life inside the Soviet bioweapons program (Sonia
Ben Ouagrham-Gormley)
Chapter 5: The Iraqi biological warfare program (Tim Trevan)
Point of View: Inside Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council (Amy
E. Smithson)
Point of View: Hunting Saddam’s biological weapons: A first-hand
account (Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack)
Chapter 6: The South African biological warfare program (Alastair
Hay)
Point of View: Open secrets: ‘Truth telling’ and transitional justice in
revealing biowarfare programs (Chandré Gould)
Section II: Bioweapons in today’s context
Chapter 7: RISE, the Rajneeshees, Aum Shinrikyo & Bruce Ivins
(Seth W. Carus)
Point of View: Inside the mind of a bioterrorist (Toby Ewin)
Chapter 8: Aftershocks of the 2001 anthrax attacks (Kathleen M.
Vogel)
Point of View: The threat of misuse (Gigi Kwik Gronvall)
Chapter 9: Searching for cures or creating pandemics in the lab?
(Nancy D. Connell & Brian Rappert)
Point of View: Dangerous life sciences research (David R. Franz)
Chapter 10: Ebola: From public health crisis to national security
threat (Nicholas G. Evans)
Point of View: Building a sustainable biodefense industry (Jacob
Thorup Cohn)
Chapter 11: Quandaries of contemporary biodefense research
(Gregory D. Koblentz)
Section III: Biological disarmament and non-proliferation
Chapter 12: The traditional tools of biological arms control and
disarmament (Marie Chevrier & Alex Spelling)
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Witness Seminar: Origins of the Biological Weapons
Convention (Jeanne Guillemin, Matthew Meselson,
Julian Perry Robinson & Nicholas Sims)
Interview: Unconventional weapons and activist
scientists (Steven Rose & Filippa Lentzos)
Point of View: Responsible science: Strategies for
engaging key stakeholders (Jo L. Husbands)
Chapter 13: Non-traditional tools: Biological cooperative
threat reduction activities (Amy E. Smithson)
Interview: International security and counter-terrorism
(Trevor Smith & Filippa Lentzos)
Point of View: The front lines of biological weapons
non-proliferation (Melissa Finley & Jen Gaudioso)
Roundtable: The future of biothreat governance (Iris
Hunger, Jez Littlewood, Caitriona McLeish, Piers Millett
& Ralf Trapp)
Readership:
Students and researchers, policy makers, the public policy
sector and the wider community. It is particularly pertinent
for those interested in biological disarmament, nonproliferation, counterterrorism and health security.
Aug 2016
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