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Traces the history of biological warfare from ancient practices to the present time. The use of germ warfare by Germany during WWI led to the 1925 Geneva Protocol forbidding the use of bacteriological agents in warfare. However, the failure to ban research resulted in the deaths of thousands of experimental subjects in places like Manchuria. Post-WWII research in the UK, US, & Soviet Union is described, along with the low cost & high destructive capacity of these weapons; advent of the Biological Weapons Convention; & the suspected continuance of biological warfare research in Iraq, the People's Republic of China, India, Iran, Israel, both Koreas, Libya, & Pakistan. It is noted that recent developments in genetic engineering have made bio-organisms harder to identify & more resistant to common antibiotics. The emerging ability to design toxins, viruses, or bacteria that are more harmful to one ethnic group than another reveals the ominous possibility of biological warfare directed at specific groups. The need for the US to lead in accepting new verification protocols of the Biological Weapons Convention is emphasized. J. Lindroth

Fify-three years ago the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They killed some 250,000 poeple. A distinguished group of contributors examine the background and effects of the bombing and look at the lessons for a world which harbours 45,000 nuclear warheads

British nuclear weapons policy / Tom Milne -- Legality of British nuclear weapons / Ronald King Murray -- The nuclear battlefield / Hugh Beach -- My first trip to ground zero / Ric Johnstone -- Why I rejected nuclear weapons / Robert Green -- Resisting the British bomb / Duncan Rees, Bruce Kent, Janet Bloomfield -- British nuclear tests and the indigenous people of Australia / Roger Cross -- Cleaning-up Maralinga / Alan Parkinson -- Long-term health effects in UK test veterans / Sue Rabbitt Roff -- Health effects at home / Douglas Holdstock -- Nuclear terrorism: today's nuclear threat / Frank Barnaby -- An end to British nuclear weapons? / R.S. Pease -- Afterword / Ronald McCoy