Biological weapons : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / Jeanne Guillemin.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.

Biological agents and disease transmission -- The United Kingdom and biological warfare : the remorseless advance of military science -- The United States in World War II : industrial scale and secrecy -- Secret sharing and the Japanese biological weapons program (1934-1945) -- Aiming for nuclear scale : the Cold War and the US biological warfare program -- The Nixon decision -- The Soviet biological weapons program -- Bioterrorism and the threat of proliferation -- National security and the biological weapons threat -- Biological weapons : restraints against proliferation.