Author: DRELL, SIDNEY D. & ABRAHAM D. SOFAER & GEORGE D. WILSON
Title: The New Terror Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons
Description: Stanford University, California: Hoover Press, 1999. Paperback. ISBN: 0817997024. Hoover National Security Forum Series. Series; 9.8 X 6.9 X 2.1 inches; xxx, 512 pages; Soft cover has green spine with yellow lettering. NEW, in shrinkwrap. Hoover national security forum series.' The growing threat of biological and chemical weapons (BCW) has created the frightening prospect of terrorist attacks by states, state-sanctioned terrorist organizations, and destructive individuals loose in our midst. What can we do to prepare for this threat? This illuminating and often disturbing book brings together the views of leading thinkers-in science, medicine, international and constitutional law, law enforcement, intelligence, and crisis management-on all diverse aspects of this challenge based on their statements at the November 1998 Hoover Institution Conference on Biological and Chemical Weapons. The New Terror takes a hard look at the most pressing BCW issues facing the international community and realistic options for preventing, deterring against, and mitigating the consequences of the use of BCW.'. New .

Keywords: 0817997024 9780817997021; Weapons; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Biology; Terrorism; Chemical Warfare; Biological Warfare; Conference Proceedings; Crises Management; Cultural History Education Science European History American History Orient/Asia Geography