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Bioweapons threaten global security as evolving technologies enable more potent, widespread, and unpredictable biological threats and responses.
Bioweapons are living microbes and microbial toxins used as weapons. They have been used in war, terrorist attacks and political assassination attempts. They are more topical today than ever.
This book gives a broad overview over biological weapons throughout history to present day. We learn about how Scythians used snakes to poison their arrows, how smallpox was used against Aboriginal Americans during the Seven Years’ War, and Japan’s gruesome warfare in China before and during World War II. The book also uncovers the bioweapons programmes of various countries, including America's and the Soviet Union's investment in bioweapons during the Cold war, South Africa’s "Doctor Death" and Canada’s Nobel Prize winner who developed bioweapons. The book also considers the controversial views that modern day viruses, such as HIV, Covid-19, or Monkeypox, could have been developed as a bioweapons.
The book also describes the use of bioweapons by terrorist organizations and criminals.
Today, the threat from bioweapons is increasing. Progress in biotechnological research and ‘synthetic biology’ currently makes it possible to produce much more terrifying microbes as weapons than those of the past. The book reveals how the development of artificial intelligence and drones also contribute significantly to this risk. Future use of more lethal bioweapons may cause extensive pandemics, ecological catastrophes and potential genocide. It is therefore of utmost importance to face the threat from bioweapons in an effective way, both nationally and internationally, and this book also covers how to respond to a bioweapon attack.
A deafening silence about the threat from biological weapons prevails in the public sphere. Written in a friendly and accessible way, this book aims to break the silence.
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Pen and Sword Books
Church Street 49
S70 2AS Barnsley
enquiries@pen-and-sword.co.uk
1226734222
Bioweapons are living microbes and microbial toxins used as weapons. They have been used in war, terrorist attacks and political assassination attempts. They are more topical today than ever.
This book gives a broad overview over biological weapons throughout history to present day. We learn about how Scythians used snakes to poison their arrows, how smallpox was used against Aboriginal Americans during the Seven Years’ War, and Japan’s gruesome warfare in China before and during World War II. The book also uncovers the bioweapons programmes of various countries, including America's and the Soviet Union's investment in bioweapons during the Cold war, South Africa’s "Doctor Death" and Canada’s Nobel Prize winner who developed bioweapons. The book also considers the controversial views that modern day viruses, such as HIV, Covid-19, or Monkeypox, could have been developed as a bioweapons.
The book also describes the use of bioweapons by terrorist organizations and criminals.
Today, the threat from bioweapons is increasing. Progress in biotechnological research and ‘synthetic biology’ currently makes it possible to produce much more terrifying microbes as weapons than those of the past. The book reveals how the development of artificial intelligence and drones also contribute significantly to this risk. Future use of more lethal bioweapons may cause extensive pandemics, ecological catastrophes and potential genocide. It is therefore of utmost importance to face the threat from bioweapons in an effective way, both nationally and internationally, and this book also covers how to respond to a bioweapon attack.
A deafening silence about the threat from biological weapons prevails in the public sphere. Written in a friendly and accessible way, this book aims to break the silence.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Pen and Sword Books
Church Street 49
S70 2AS Barnsley
enquiries@pen-and-sword.co.uk
1226734222
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Data wydania: 30.09.2026
Liczba stron: 264
Wymiary: 15.6x23.4
Typ okładki:twarda okładka
Wydawca: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Tytuł:Bioweapons: The History, The Present and The Future
EAN: 9781036182694
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