Preface

Abbreviations

1. Historical Context and Overview
Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando

2. The US Biological Weapons Program
John Ellis van Courtland Moon

3. The UK Biological Weapons Program
Brian Balmer

4. The Canadian Biological Weapons Program and the Tripartite Alliance
Donald Avery

5. The French Biological Weapons Program
Olivier Lepick

6. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
John Hart

7. Biological Weapons in Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries
Lajos Rózsa and Kathryn Nixdorff

8. The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program
Graham Pearson

9. The South African Biological Weapons Program
ChandrE Gould and Alastair Hay

10. Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs
Simon Whitby

11. Antianimal Biological Weapons Programs
Piers Millet

12. Midspectrum Incapacitant Programs
Malcolm Dando and Martin Furmanski

13. Allegations of Biological Weapons Use
Martin Furmanski and Mark Wheelis

14. Terrorist Use of Biological Weapons
Mark Wheelis and Masaaki Sugishima

15. The Politics of Biological Disarmament
Marie Chevrier

16. Legal Constraints on Biological Weapons
Nicholas Sims

17. Analysis and Implications
Malcolm Dando, Graham Pearson, Lajos Rózsa, Julian Perry Robinson, and Mark Wheelis

Appendix. The Biological Weapons Convention

Notes

Contributors

Index

Mark Wheelis is Senior Lecturer in the Section of Microbiology at the University of California, Davis.

Lajos Rózsa is senior researcher, Animal Ecology Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Malcolm Dando is Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England.