On the Defensive Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare: A NATO Long Term Scientific Study

摘要

The last NATO Long Term Science and Technology Study (LTSS) on Defensive Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare was done in 1988, before the end of the Cold War, the Gulf War, CB terrorism, NATO's Partners for Peace, the CWC, the BTWC and several other important sociological and political changes. Dr. Jan Medema wrote an addendum in 1991 highlighting some of the important changes from 1988, especially the increasingly diverse threat and the changes in biotechnology that increased the potential to manufacture BW agents with relative ease. No longer was a massive chemical attack a likely scenario; instead numerous countries possessed the capabilities to use biological and toxin weapons, which mae predicting their use much more difficult.