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This book examines the recent intersection of national security and public health regarding biological threats to the U.S. populace and proposes improvements to the executive and legislative development of U.S. policy addressing biological threat mitigation. Over the last 20 years, the national security community has engaged with disease-related issues that have traditionally been the scope of public health agencies. The federal government's ...

The Gulf War conflict featured the possible use of chemical-biological weapons systems against the US forces. This account assesses the degree of readiness achieved in building up defences, before the ground attack in March 1991, and the lessons learned since the conflict.

A no-nonsense examination of the critical months from August 1990 to March 1991 during which U.S. forces prepared to meet a possible Iraqi chemical attack in the Persian Gulf War.

For more than 15 years, the Army's chemical demilitarization program has been criticized and castigated as a potentially dangerous effort, poorly executed without concern for the public. By reviewing the chemical demilitarization program as a public policy area, Mauroni offers a different perspective on how the Army worked with Congress and the public to offer the safest program possible. The Army was forced to delay its own schedule and incre...

The Cold War phrase weapons of mass destruction continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of ricin and barrels of industrial chemicals to megaton nuclear weapons. As a direct result of the decision to refer to all nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC)...

The Cold War phrase weapons of mass destruction continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of ricin and barrels of industrial chemicals to megaton nuclear weapons. As a direct result of the decision to refer to all nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC)...