The new biological weapons : threat, proliferation, and control / by Malcolm Dando.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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""Book Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables & Figures""; ""Table 1.1 The Chemical and Biological Warfare Threat Spectrum""; ""Table 2.1 The Phases of the U.S. Offensive Biological Warfare Program""; ""Table 2.2 U.S. Herbicide Usage by Type of Mission""; ""Table 2.3 Plant Hormones and Their Functions""; ""Table 3.1 Some Goals of the Human Genome Project for 1998�2003""; ""Table 4.1 Families of Venomous Snakes""; ""Table 4.2 Some Characteristics of Chemical and Toxin Agents""; ""Table 4.3 Comparative Lethality of Toxins in Laboratory Mice""

""Table 4.4 Categorization of Toxins by Toxicity""""Table 5.1 Endothelin/Sarafotoxin""; ""Table 5.2 Some Effects of Peptides""; ""Table 5.3 Some Regulatory Functions of Peptides""; ""Table 6.1 Chronology of Different Approaches to Drug Discovery""; ""Table 7.1 Amount of Toxin Required for Lethality in Various Attack Scenarios""; ""Table 7.2 Nonpeptide Antagonists""; ""Table 8.1 Types of Biological Warfare""; ""Table 8.2 Lactose Absorption by Adult Population""; ""Table 8.3 Some Racial/Ethnic Differences in Single-Gene Disorders""

""Table 9.1 Toxin Assessment According to Criteria for Selecting Toxins as Toxin Weapons""""Table 9.2 Toxin Risk Assessment""; ""Figure 4.1 Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the Interaction Between Superantigen and MHC Class II and the TCR Complex""; ""Figure 5.1 Amino Acid Sequence of Endothelin-1""; ""Figure 5.2 Diagrammatic Representation of the Structure of Endothelin""; ""Figure 5.3 Amino Acid Sequence of Substance P""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-Technological Change and Arms Control""; ""The Necessity of Arms Control""; ""The Nature of Arms Control""; ""The Mechanisms of Arms Control""

""The Agenda of Arms Control Today""""New Biological Weapons""; ""Outline of the Book""; ""2-Operational Toxin and Bioregulatory Weapons""; ""Toxin Weapons""; ""Bioregulators""; ""Deliberate Direct Attacks on Human Chemical Regulatory Systems""; ""3-Concerns About the Misuses of Biotechnology""; ""The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention""; ""The Chemical Weapons Convention""; ""4-Toxins""; ""Natural Toxins""; ""Current Military Concerns""; ""Defense Against Toxin Weapons""; ""Mechanisms of Action""; ""The Dilemmas of Dual-Use Technology""; ""Futures""; ""5-Bioregulatory Peptides""

""Endothelin""""Substance P""; ""Neuropeptides in General""; ""Neuropeptides as Biological Warfare Agents""; ""The Soviet Union""; ""6-Specificity: Receptors""; ""Cell Signaling""; ""Receptors""; ""7-Agent Delivery""; ""Aerobiology""; ""Drug Delivery""; ""Specific Targets""; ""8-Targets""; ""Using Biological Weapons""; ""Agricultural Warfare""; ""Operating with Toxin Weapons""; ""Ethnic Weapons""; ""9-Can the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Be Strengthened?""; ""The General Purpose Criterion and Its Implementation""; ""Implementing the CWC""; ""Implementing the BTWC""

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