{"product_id":"bioterrorism-and-biological-warfare-by-paul-chrystal-9781399090803","title":"Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important, disturbing, and timely book focuses on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor context, it traces developments from the earliest primitive but effective days of infectious rams, poison-tipped arrows, and plague-infected corpses used as toxic, disease-spreading projectiles, to the twenty-first-century industrial-scale weaponization of biomedicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Chrystal shows how biological weapons and acts of bioterrorism are especially effective at instilling terror, panic, death, famine, and economic ruin on a large scale, shredding public confidence in governments and civilization itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the disaffected, lethal biological agents are comparatively easy to manufacture and obtain, and they have the benefit of being almost invisible, easy, and quick to administer in lethal quantities through a variety of discreet delivery systems. Just what the terrorist wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe explore the sinister connection between the industrial-scale proliferation of biological weaponry by state actors and the greater opportunities these growing bio-arsenals give to the increasingly scientific-minded and determined terrorist to manufacture his or her weapon of choice, taking advantage also of the state-of-the-art sophisticated delivery systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe epilogue analyses the concerted but groundless 2022-2023 disinformation campaign conducted by Russia, with support from China, relating to the claim that public health facilities in Ukraine are 'secret U.S.-funded biolabs', purportedly developing biological weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBioterrorism and Biological Warfare\u003c\/em\u003e is authored by Paul Chrystal, who has written a number of books on conflict and military history. His works include the best-selling \u003cem\u003eBritish Army of the Rhine: The BAOR 1945-1993\u003c\/em\u003e (2018); \u003cem\u003eNorthern Ireland - The Troubles from the Provos to the Det 1968-1998\u003c\/em\u003e (2018); \u003cem\u003eWomen at War in the Ancient World\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eRoman Military Disasters\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); \u003cem\u003eWar in Greek Mythology\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eRome: Republic into Empire - The Civil Wars\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), all published by Pen \u0026amp; Sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is also the author of \u003cem\u003eA History of Britain in 100 Objects\u003c\/em\u003e (2022); \u003cem\u003eWars and Battles of the Roman Republic\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eWars and Battles of Ancient Greece\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). His \u003cem\u003eBiowarfare and Bioterrorism: Disease as a Weapon of War\u003c\/em\u003e is due for publication in 2023. See his full list at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.paulchrystal.com\"\u003ewww.paulchrystal.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bookreps NZ Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900290679020,"sku":"9781399090803","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399090803-bioterrorism-and-biological-warfare.jpg?v=1783397789","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/bioterrorism-and-biological-warfare-by-paul-chrystal-9781399090803","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}