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1 online resource (xxvii, 359 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed 4/3/19). |
| Contents |
Abrin -- Accidental nuclear war -- Agroterrorism (agricultural biological warfare) -- Airborne alert -- Al Qaeda -- Ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- Anthrax -- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- Antinuclear movement -- Anti-satellite weapons -- Arms control -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Australia Group -- Baruch Plan -- Bikini Island -- Binary chemical munitions -- Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- Bioregulators -- Blood agents -- Botulism (botulinum toxin) -- Brinkmanship -- Broken arrow -- Brucellosis (Brucella bacterium) -- Chemical Weapons Convention -- Chernobyl -- China, People's Republic of -- Chlorine gas -- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty -- Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Nunn-Lugar Program) -- Crisis stability -- Criticality and critical mass -- De-alerting -- Declared facility -- Depleted Uranium (U-238) -- Deterrence -- Deterrence and Defense Posture Review -- Deuterium -- Enrichment -- Extended deterrence -- Fallout -- Fentanyl -- Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty -- France -- Fusion -- Gun-type devices -- Halabja Incident -- Half-life -- Hemorrhagic fever viruses -- Highly enriched uranium -- Hiroshima -- Hydrogen bomb -- Implosion devices -- India -- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty -- International Atomic Energy Agency -- Iran -- Iraq -- Islamic state -- Isotopes -- Israel -- Joint comprehensive plan of action -- Kaffa, Siege of -- Kiloton -- Libya -- Limited Test Ban Treaty -- Lithium -- Low enriched uranium -- Manhattan Project -- Megaton -- Missile defense -- Missile Technology Control Regime -- Mustard (sulfur and nitrogen) -- Mutual assured destruction -- Nagasaki -- Napalm -- Nerve agents -- Neutron bomb (enhanced radiation weapon) -- New START Treaty -- North Korea -- Nuclear fuel cycle -- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- Nuclear Posture Review -- Nuclear taboo -- Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty -- Nuclear-weapons-free zone -- Nuclear winter -- Pakistan -- Phosphorus -- Pit -- Platue -- Plutonium -- Prague Agenda -- Primary stage -- Psychoincapacitants -- Q fever -- Radiation -- Radiological dispersal device -- Reprocessing -- Ricin -- Russian chemical and biological weapons -- Russian nuclear forces and doctrine -- Smallpox -- South Africa -- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B -- Stockpile Stewardship Program -- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I and SALT II) -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) -- Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty -- Syria -- Tactical nuclear weapons -- Triad -- Tritium -- Tularemia -- United Kingdom -- Uranium -- U.S. chemical and biological weapons programs -- U.S. nuclear forces and doctrine -- V-agents -- Wassenaar Arrangement -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Weapons-grade material -- Yellow rain -- Yield -- Primary documents. |
| Summary |
This book offers an A-to-Z listing of major topics, with a focus on weapons that date from the use of chemical warfare in World War I. It also covers WMD from the early nuclear era (World War II), the Cold War, and the present (Syria, North Korea, etc.). Each entry is written in a clear, accessible style and includes crucial background information. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Weapons of mass destruction -- Encyclopedias.
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Weapons of mass destruction. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Subject |
Weapons of mass destruction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. |
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Croddy, Eric, 1966-
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Wirtz, James J., 1958-
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Larsen, Jeffrey Arthur, 1954- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weapons of mass destruction. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018] 9781440855740 (DLC) 2018015125 |
| ISBN |
9781440855757 (electronic book) |
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1440855757 (electronic book) |
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9781440855740 (hardcopy ; alkaline paper) |
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1440855749 |
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