Biological weapons; issues and threats.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Biological weapons; issues and threats.

Ed. by P. R. Chari and Arpit Rajain.

Marshall Cavendish Academic

2004

148 pages

$19.00

Paperback

JZ5830

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC) has no provisions for verification similar for those of the Chem...

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