TY - BOOK AU - LEDERBERG Joshua (ed.) TI - Biological weapons: limiting the threat SN - 0262621282 (pbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, Mass.,USA PB - The MIT Press KW - ARMS CONTROL KW - BIOLOGICAL WARFARE KW - BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS KW - IRAQ KW - SOVIET UNION KW - BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM KW - UNITED STATES N2 - A collection of essays, many of which were first published in the 'Journal of the American Medical Association', and which consider the medical, scientific, and political dimensions of limiting the threat posed by biological weapons. Specifically, essays cover the current threat posed by biological wepoans, the history of attempts to control them, case studies of episodes in which biological agents have been used, Iraq's biological warfare programmme, and policies that the United States might pursue to reduce the threat ER -