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100 1 _aPITA Rene
700 _aGUNARATNA Rohan
245 _aAnthrax as a biological weapon:
_bfrom World War I to the Amerithrax investigation /
_cRene Pita and Rohan Gunaratna.
260 _c2009
520 _aExplains what anthrax is, describes the development of anthrax as a biological weapon during the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War, and outlines the BWC which was designed to end the development, stockpiling or use of biological weapons. The article then looks at serious interest in anthrax by terrorist groups, and finally discusses the anthrax attacks in the USA which appear to have been the work of a disgruntled laboratory scientist who later committed suicide.
650 _aANTHRAX
650 _aBIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
_xTERRORISM
773 _aInternational Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence :
_gVol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 61-103 (117)
945 _i29890-1001
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999 _c15373
_d15373