Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons

Alan Pearson is director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.Marie Chevrier is associate professor of Public Policy Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas.Mark Wheelis is senior lecturer in Microbiology at the University of California, Davis.

• Chapter 1 1. IntroductionChapter 2 2. Nonconsensual Manipulation of Human Physiology Using BiochemicalsChapter 3 3. Drug Development in the Twenty First Century and the Role of New BiotechnologiesChapter 4 4. Historical Military Interest in Low-lethality Biochemical Agents: Avoiding and Augmenting Lethal ForceChapter 5 5. Late and Post-Cold War Research and Development of Incapacitating Biochemical WeaponsChapter 6 6. Current and Prospective Military and Law Enforcement Use of Chemical Agents for IncapacitationChapter 7 7. Scientific Outlook for the Development of IncapacitantsChapter 8 8. Potential Long-term Physiological Consequences of Exposure to Incapacitating BiochemicalsChapter 9 9. Incapacitating Chemical and Biochemical Weapons and Law Enforcement Under the Chemical Weapons ConventionChapter 10 10. Toxic Chemicals for Law Enforcement Including Domestic Riot Control Purposes Under the Chemical Weapons ConventionChapter 11 11. Incapacitating Biochemicals and the Biological Weapons ConventionChapter 12 12. Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Risks and UncertaintiesChapter 13 13. International Law and the Regulation of WeaponsChapter 14 14. Human Rights Law and the Use of Incapacitating Biochemical WeaponsChapter 15 15. Protecting and Reinforcing Humanitarian Norms: The Way ForwardChapter 16 16. Conclusion and Recommendations

This book, with its essays by leading players in the field, provides an excellent and urgently needed analysis of incapacitating biochemical weapons. Diplomats, scientists and policy-makers in all States Parties to Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions should read this book so as to ensure the maintenance and strengthening of the conventions in the face of the very real and present danger presented by these weapons.