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The Myth of the Poor Man's Atomic Bomb and the Politics of Proliferation
Preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction has been an important policy priority in the past decades. This dissertation questions the prevailing view that chemical and biological weapons (CBWs) are a ‘poor man’s atomic bomb’ that are particularly attractive to ‘developing countries’ that cannot acquire nuclear weapons. The study shows that vague, unverifiable, and inflated threat assessments from US government sources have played an important role in sustaining this myth. A unique dataset of CBW development programs in the period 1946-2010 demonstrates that significantly fewer countries have had CBW programs than often thought and that especially ‘Third World’ countries have been incorrectly accused of pursuing or possessing CBWs.
Red, White, and True
Even as we celebrate the return of our military from wars in the Middle East, we are becoming increasingly aware of the struggles that await veterans on the home front. Red, White, and True offers readers a collection of voices that reflect the experiences of those touched by warùfrom the children of veterans who encounter them in their fathersÆ recollections of past wars to the young men and women who fought in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. The diversity of perspectives collected in this volume validates the experiences of our veterans and their families, describing their shared struggles and triumphs while honoring the fact that each personÆs military experience is different. Lei...
Advances in Genetics
Advances in Genetics
The Rhizomatic West
Is the American West in Sergio Leone?s ?spaghetti westerns? the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland?s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch?s movies? In Calexico?s music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean? ø Using Gilles Deleuze and Fälix Guattari?s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American ?rootedness? and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants,...
Handbook of Genetics
The purpose of this and future volumes of the Handbook of Genetics is to bring together a collection of relatively short, authoritative essays or annotated compilations of data on topics of significance to geneticists. Many of the essays will deal with various aspects of the biology of certain species selected because they are favorite subjects for genetic investigation in nature or the laboratory. Often there will be an encyclopedic amount of information available on such a species, with new papers appearing daily. Most of these will be written for specialists in a jargon that is be wildering to a novice, and sometimes even to a veteran geneticist working with evolutionarily distant organis...
