Biological weapons history

Harms van den Berg, The Fatal Fallout from El A1 Flight 1862, Jerusalem Report (21 December 1998), pp. 16-21. For a comprehensive review of Israel s chemical and biological weapons programme, see Avner Cohen, Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons History, Deterrence and Arms Control, The Non-Proliferation Review, Fall-Winter (2001), pp. 27-53. 

Cohen, Avner, Israel and Chemical and Biological Weapons History, Deterrence and Arms Control, Non-Proliferation Review (Fall-Winter 2001). 

Cohen, A. (2001). Israel and chemical/biological weapons History, deterrence, and arms control. The Nonproliferation Review, 8(3), 31. 

Chapter III of the IG report is devoted to a history of the threat. It concisely summarizes the changing American mentality following our success in World War II. After focusing almost completely on nuclear weapons, a succession of scientific and technical advances awakened military planners to the need also to consider the potentially serious threat posed by chemical and biological weapons. As intelligence reports about Soviet investment in psychoactive substances accumulated, their concern increased. In early 1951, for example, intelligence sources reported that Russia was experimenting with a... 

Traditionally, chemical weapons arms control had been dealt with together with the control of what today we call biological weapons. That reflected the close association of these two types of weaponry in history... 

Man has used biological weapons since the dawn of civilization, often for the purpose of warfare or assassination. Chapter 1 provides an overview of documented historical events involving the use of biological pathogens and toxins as weapons during warfare. A more exhaustive history of biological warfare is provided by Smart (1997) and Frischknecht (2003). 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 1971-1975 for a history of Britain s disarmament see Walker 2012 see ako Brian Bahner and Catriona McLeish s AHRC-funded project Understanding Biological Disarmament The Historical Context of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) . 

Spiers, E.M., A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons (London, Reaktion Books, 2010). 

---