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Biotechnology and Politico-Military Responses to BTW Agents

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The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents

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This volume began with a consideration of the wider political issues — particularly the strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) — within which the technical issues discussed in the following chapters are set. It would be standard practice, in these later chapters, to return to the wider political issues in the light of our technical discussions. However, that is not as straightforward here as we might normally expect - though modern biotechnology obviously has important benefits in countering BW agents, it is obviously also partly the cause of the increasing probability of their proliferation and use.

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  1. Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

    Malcolm R. Dando CBiol FIBiol (Professor of International Security)

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  1. Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Alexander Kelle

  2. Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    Malcolm R. Dando

  3. Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Kathryn Nixdorff

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Dando, M.R. (2001). Biotechnology and Politico-Military Responses to BTW Agents. In: Kelle, A., Dando, M.R., Nixdorff, K. (eds) The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents. NATO Science Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0775-7_22

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