Biological Warfare Against Crops
About this book
Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. This book represents the first substantive study of state-run activities in this field. It shows that all biological warfare programmes have included a component concerned with the development of anti-crop biological warfare agents and munitions. Current concern over the proliferation of biological weapons is placed in the context of the initiative to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The book concludes by arguing that the risks posed by this form of warfare can be minimised, but that this would depend largely on the effective and efficient implementation of regimes concerning the peaceful use and control of plant pathogens that pose a risk to human health and the environment.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbrevations
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Iraq and UNSCOM
- 3 The Study of Disease in Plants
- 4 Anti-Crop BW and the BTWC
- 5 The Context of US BW Research and Development
- 6 Aspects of Anti-Crop BW Activity in France, Germany and Japan
- 7 Post-Second World War US Anti-Crop BW
- 8 Some Aspects of UK and US Anti-Crop Warfare Collaboration between 1943 and 1958
- 9 Munitions for Anti-Crop BW Agents
- 10 Targets
- 11 Conclusions
- 12 Related International Regulation and Control of Disease against Plants
- Appendix I Wartime Studies into Potential Anti-Crop BW Agents
- Appendix II
- Appendix III Fort Detrick pertinent technical data on anti-crop biological agents for FY 1970
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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