Stella & Rose's Books

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