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Having reached my own centenary, I can only say that I wish Geoffrey could be reaching his in 1994, instead of having left us in 1982 at the age of 87. His wisdom and foresight are sadly needed in today's world, whose problems he clearly predicted. His proposals for dealing with those problems, and for avoiding them where possible, are as valid today as when he made them. One can only hope that his books, with their clear signposts for the future, will reach and enrich present and future generations in the same way they have enlightened those of the past. —Adolph Lowe, 1993

Since the mid-1950s, Japan has domestically developed various defence equipment for the three services of the SDF (Self-Defence Force) while carrying out licensed production of advanced U.S. weapons systems. The authors address the issue of Japan's own R & D (research and development) and licensed production paying special attention to the civilian sector in military R & D. Japanese-U.S. co-development of defence equipment and Japanese-U.S. joint research on military technology. (DÜI-Sen)

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Toxin and Bioregulator Weapons -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Purpose and Structure of the Book -- 1.2 Scope of Agents and Activities Covered -- 1.2.1 Toxins -- 1.2.2 Bioregulators -- 1.2.3 Other Chemicals of Biological Origin -- 1.3 Coverage of Toxins and Bioregulators Under International Arms Control and Disarmament Instruments -- 1.4 Dual-Use Research and the Difficulties with Establishing Intent -- 1.5 Methodology -- Chapter 2: Dual-Use Chemical and Life Science Research of Potential Concern -- 2.1 What Is Happening in the Life Sciences? -- 2.2 A Game Changer for Toxin Weapons Development? -- 2.3 Toxicology as Part of the Biotechnology Revolution -- 2.4 Example 1: Botulinum Toxins -- 2.5 Example 2: Staphylococcal Enterotoxins -- 2.6 Example 3: Bioregulators -- 2.7 Advances in Neuroimmunology -- 2.8 The Impact of Long COVID -- 2.9 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The China Case Study -- 3.1 Historical Toxin Weapon Development -- 3.2 Contemporary Dual-Use Toxin Research -- 3.3 China Brain Project -- 3.4 Central Nervous System-Acting Weapons -- 3.5 Research and Development of Riot Control Agent Delivery Mechanisms -- 3.6 CWC Article X Declarations and the BTWC Confidence-Building Measures -- 3.7 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4: The India Case Study -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Research and Development of Riot Control Agent Means of Delivery -- 4.3 Malodorants -- 4.4 Incapacitating Chemical Agents/CNS-Acting Chemical Agents -- 4.5 Contemporary Dual-Use Toxin Research Into "Novel Bio-Threat Agents" -- 4.6 CWC Article X Declarations and the BTWC Confidence-Building Measures -- 4.7 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5: The Iran Case Study -- 5.1 Changing Perceptions of Alleged Iranian Biological and Toxin Weapon Programmes.

"This is a fundamental resource for life and associated scientists to raise awareness and understanding of biological security with regards to malign manipulation of scientific findings. The book is written by experts who have been engaged in biological security issues for decades, but in a systematically organized manner so that it is accessible to the wide range of different life and associated specialists who are creating the revolution in the sciences and technologies converging around the life sciences and thus radically changing our capabilities for the manipulation of living organisms for good purposes, but also opening up many more dangerous opportunities for malign manipulation ? in what has been termed dual-use applications such as novel biological and toxin weapons."--

Cover; Preventing Chemical Weapons: Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge; Foreword; Contents; Section I -- Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Preventing the Re-emergence of Chemical Weapons; 1.1 The Context; 1.2 Concept for the Book; 1.3 Holistic Arms Control; 1.4 The Structure of the Book; References; Chapter 2 -- The Changing Nature of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Mass Casualty and Mass Effect Attacks; 2.2.1 LTTE and the Bombing of the Colombo War Trade Centre; 2.2.2 The 1994 Attempted Attack on Paris