National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

by Daniel M. Gerstein

This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC-the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970's meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier. That treaty banned the use of biological weapons in modern warfare, but failed to ban their development, transport or trafficking, holes the BWC aimed to fill, but are still contested to this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144222312X
• ISBN13: 9781442223127
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"