BRITAIN AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: EXPERT ADVICE AND SCIENCE POLICY, 1930-65
Written by Brian Balmer
Published by Palgrave
in 2001
ISBN: 0333754301
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BRITAIN AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: EXPERT ADVICE AND SCIENCE POLICY, 1930-65
Written by Brian Balmer.
Stock no. 1327423
1st.
2001.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The history of biological weapons research and policy in th UK. Black boards, silver title to spine. 246 pages. ISBN: 0333754301. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed. Sticky mark to rear panel of wrapper (removal of a a label?).
Front cover
Contents
- List of Tables and Diagrams
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Biological Warfare and Scientific Expertise
- Wat are biological weapons?
- Secrecy
- the politics of expertise
- Threat assessments and the sociology of risk
- before biological warfare
- The invisible enemy
- 2 Bacteriological Warfare as a Public Health Threat
- The 'datum line' on biological warfare
- Formalizing advice
- Emergency response becomes the Public Health Laboratory Service
- Intelligence and bacteriological possibilites
- Secrecy
- Responding to different bacteriological warfares
- 3 Hankey's 'Step Further'
- Reorganisation and policy revision
- Porton Down
- Gruinard Island
- Special Operations
- The American programme
- Ordering Anthrax
- Bombs and committees
- The legacy of world war
- 4 The Growth of Biological Warfare Research
- Handing over
- Organising biological warfare policy
- biological warfare takes top priority
- Mass destruction
- Promises
- Offence of defence?
- Imagining the Threat
- The place of civil defence
- Recruitment
- Biological weapons ascend
- 5 Project Red Admiral
- Negotiating Red Admiral
- Biological and atomic bombs
- Tripartite collaboration and the biological bomb
- Killing the bomb
- Experimental Plant No.2
- 6 Trials for Biological Warfare
- Operation Harness
- Operation Cauldron
- Operation Hesperus
- Virology
- Return to the Bahamas: Operation Ozone
- The last trial: Negation
- Sea trials sink
- 7 The Drift of Biological Weapons Policy
- Some doubts
- Divergence and change
- Directives
- Further divergence from the United States
- More atomic weapons
- Defending biological warfare
- Sabotage
- Losing the BW subcommittee
- 8 A New Threat
- Abandoning offensive chemical warfare
- New trials, new danger
- Zinc cadmium sulphide
- Strategic insignificance
- Change and anxiety
- More trials
- From inert to living simulants
- Large area concept, early warning, defence and renewed interest
- Sea trials with simulants
- Test tube
- Surviving and redefining policy
- 9 Making Threats
- Appendix
- Outline chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index