01839nam a22003134a 4500 ebr10183407 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 040525s2005 nyu sb 001 0 eng 2004051911 0231129424 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)614998753 UG447.8 .G85 2005eb 358/.3882/09 22 Guillemin, Jeanne, 1943- Biological weapons [electronic resource] : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / Jeanne Guillemin. New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. xii, 258 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index. Biological agents and disease transmission -- The United Kingdom and biological warfare : the remorseless advance of military science -- The United States in World War II : industrial scale and secrecy -- Secret sharing and the Japanese biological weapons program (1934-1945) -- Aiming for nuclear scale : the Cold War and the US biological warfare program -- The Nixon decision -- The Soviet biological weapons program -- Bioterrorism and the threat of proliferation -- National security and the biological weapons threat -- Biological weapons : restraints against proliferation. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Biological warfare History. Bioterrorism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10183407 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 233343 233343