| Physical description |
1 online resource (386 pages) |
| Contents |
UNSCOM's inception and infancy -- UNSCOM's initial biological inspections -- From hiatus to the hunt -- UNSCOM shreds Iraq's cover stories -- Defection and artifice -- Inspections in a fact-free zone -- Tentacles and disintegration -- Lessons experienced I : inspection prerequisites -- Lessons experienced II : sharpening the tools of inspection -- Gambits present and future. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrophe. For decades the ability to ascertain whether states are hiding germ weapons programs has been nonexistent because the 1975 bioweapons ban has no inspection measures. Yet, in 1995 a small United Nations inspection corps pulled off a spectacular verification feat in the face of concerted resistance from Iraq's Saddam Hussein and popular skepticism that it was even possible to conduct effective biological inspections. Working from sketchy intel. |
| Subject |
Biological arms control -- Verification -- Iraq -- History.
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History. |
| ISBN |
9780804780711 |
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0804780714 |
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9780804775526 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780804775533 (alk. paper) |
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0804775532 |
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