Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy

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COMBATING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy, edited by Nathan E. Busch and Daniel H. Joyner, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2009, 395 pages, $24.95.

Nathan E. Busch and Daniel H. Joyner have produced a well-crafted anthology on combating weapons of mass destruction. The operative word here is combating, not weapons of mass destruction. The anthology assumes a rudimentary acquaintance with chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons and focuses on the questions, what is being done, what can be done, what should be done to respond to the weapons of mass destruction threat in the opening years of the 21st …