Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the polit

The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in

Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism in the twenty-first century.

This publication gives a history of biological warfare (BW) from the prehistoric period through the present, with a section on the future of BW. The publication