A look at the latest developments in agents of destruction

摘要

A book review in the 26 January issue of Nature reviews the development of biological weapons programmes throughout the world since 1945.Recent terrorist attacks have drawn considerable attention to this problem from the mass media and the scientific community.There are many unscientific prophecies,a lack of discrimination between bio-warfare,bio-terrorism and bio-crime,and a lack of uniformly accepted definitions for the situations involved.