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JAMA, 1997
The deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as weapons has been attempted throughout history. Biological warfare has evolved from the crude use of cadavers to contaminate water supplies to the development of specialized munitions for battlefield and covert use.
George W. Christopher +3 more
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The deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as weapons has been attempted throughout history. Biological warfare has evolved from the crude use of cadavers to contaminate water supplies to the development of specialized munitions for battlefield and covert use.
George W. Christopher +3 more
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CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959I would like to start with two definitions defining chemical warfare and biological warfare from a civil defense point of view. Chemical warfare is the intentional use of toxic chemicals to kill or confuse man. Biological warfare is the intentional use of living organisms or their toxic products to produce death, disability, or damage to man, animals ...
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The Physician and Biologic Warfare
New England Journal of Medicine, 1971Abstract The United States has discontinued all preparation for the offensive use of biologic weapons; this does not mean that this form of warfare might not be used against us.
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Vaccination and Biological Warfare
2002Whether it was the spread of plague following Mongol invasions, or the near eradication of Native Americans due to disease brought in from the Old World, disease has played a significant role in strategy and geopolitics. Of the many lives lost due to the violence of war throughout history, many more have succumbed to disease during battle rather than ...
Clarisa Perez-Armendariz +2 more
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
American Political Science Review, 1974Why should the world be more averse to chemical and biological warfare (CBW) than to other forms of war, repeatedly attempting to ban such warfare by means of international law? Is there some objective difference between poison gas or plague bacilli on one hand, and steel bullets, or B-52 high explosive bombs, or nuclear weapons on the other?
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Chemical-Biological Warfare in Asia
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1983DURING the first six months of 1980, I was involved in the Indo-Chinese refugee relief effort in Thailand as a volunteer physician at Ban Vinai camp. This camp is the principal refuge of the Laotian Hmong population, who are enemies of the Communist Pathet Lao and Vietnamese governments because of the Hmong's collaboration with the United States in the
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The Agents of Biological Warfare
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997Kelly J. Davis +4 more
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
New Blackfriars, 1969In the 1930s there was a considerable interest in the possibility that chemical and biological weapons might be used in the war which many people realized was impending. When such weapons were not, in fact, used in the war, public interest in their potentialities died down and the use of thermonuclear weapons diverted the attention of those who would ...
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