LIVING WEAPONS: Biological Warfare and International Security

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LIVING WEAPONS: Biological Warfare and International Security, Gregory D. Koblentz, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2009, 272 pages, $35.00.

Gregory D. Koblentz, as deputy director of the Biodefense Graduate Program and assistant professor of government and politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, has the background and insight to provide a comprehensive analysis of biological warfare and its complex role in international security. Koblentz's book is well organized, well researched, and written in a way that allows readers to follow his analysis with little or no background in the biological sciences or international …