The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide allowing organizations of just a few dozen people to deploy potentially devastating attacks. While in the twentieth century most arms-control efforts focused rightly on nuclear arsenals in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes methods of deployment and defensive response and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation. Language: English