Biological Warfare Against Crops

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-9

3. Iraq and UNSCOM

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   Pages 10-21

4. The Study of Disease in Plants

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   Pages 22-42

5. Anti-Crop BW and the BTWC

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   Pages 43-65

6. The Context of US BW Research and Development

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   Pages 66-76

7. Aspects of Anti-Crop BW Activity in France, Germany and Japan

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   Pages 77-93

8. Post-Second World War US Anti-Crop BW

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   Pages 94-117

9. Some Aspects of UK and US Anti-Crop Warfare Collaboration between 1943 and 1958

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   Pages 118-150

10. Munitions for Anti-Crop BW Agents

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    Pages 151-168

11. Targets

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    Pages 169-201

12. Conclusions

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13. Related International Regulation and Control of Disease against Plants

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14. Back Matter

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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.

• environment
• Germany
• health

• Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

  Simon M. Whitby

SIMON WHITBY is a Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He has published numerous articles on biological warfare and its control.

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