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Nature 439, 393-394 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439393a; Published online 25 January 2006
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- Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel
- Kiel, Germany
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- Indegene Lifesystems Pvt. Ltd
- Bengaluru 560 071 India
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Jens H. Kuhn1
BOOK REVIEWED-Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945
edited by Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa & Malcolm Dando
Harvard University Press: 2006. 479 pp. $59.95, £37.95
Biological weapons have received considerable attention in the media and in the scientific community since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the mailing in the United States of letters laden with Bacillus anthracis spores. Today, the debate about bioweapons is often characterized by unscientific prophecies and unlikely doomsday scenarios, a lack of discrimination between biowarfare, bioterrorism and biocrime, and a lack of uniformly accepted definitions for the terms biosafety, biosecurity and biodefence.
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