The Rollback Of South Africas Chemical And Biological Warfare Program

Author : Stephen Franklin Burgess
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990453
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program written by Stephen Franklin Burgess and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the chemical and biological weapons program of South Africa.

Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980528203
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program - Covering Origins of NBC Program, Project Coast, Wouter Basson, Transition to ANC Rule, Basson's Arrest, and Mandela written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book analyzes the origins and development of the South African chemical and biological warfare (CBW) program, as well as its rollback. It concludes with a profile of South Africa as a state that produced weapons of mass destruction and with a list of outstanding questions. More than 20 policy lessons, based on the South African case, are presented, which should be considered in future CBW non-proliferation studies. From the 1960s until the 1990s, apartheid South Africa was an isolated state that felt threatened by growing domestic unrest, as well as by a more powerful state actor, the Soviet Union, which was helping hostile regimes and liberation movements in southern Africa. One response of the apartheid regime to changing threat perceptions outside and inside of South Africa was to develop a new and more sophisticated CBW program, code-named "Project Coast," and to accelerate a nuclear weapons program. The CBW decision-making process was secretive and controlled by the military and enabled a very sophisticated program to be developed with little outside scrutiny. Military and police units used chemical and biological agents for counter-insurgency warfare, assassination, and execution of war prisoners. As the regime felt increasingly threatened by opposition at home, top political leaders approved plans for research and development of exotic means to neutralize opponents, large-scale offensive uses of the program, and weaponization. However, the plans were not operationalized. The end of the external threat led to a decision to unilaterally dismantle the program, prior to a shift to majority rule. Lack of civilian control over military programs made the rollback difficult, rife with corruption, and left proliferation concerns in place. Ultimately, the United States, Great Britain, and other countries pressured the South African government to ensure that the CBW program was dismantled and the former project manager, Dr. Wouter Basson, constrained. However, Basson secretly retained copies of Project Coast documents, which helped to perpetuate proliferation concerns. Project Coast was not the first CBW program that the South African government had developed. From 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, South African troops fought in the two World Wars and faced the threat of CBW. Although the 1925 Geneva Convention banned the use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare, Japan and possibly the Soviet Union employed such weapons in WWII. As early as the 1930s, widespread evidence emerged of the efficacy of biological warfare (BW) based on scientific work conducted in the US, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The South African scientific and military communities kept pace with the various developments in CBW.

Author : Stephen Franklin Burgess
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
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Author : Stephen Franklin Burgess
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Author : Stephen Franklin Burgess
Publisher : War College Series
ISBN 13 : 9781297474217
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program - War College Series written by Stephen Franklin Burgess and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Author : Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253003065
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Helen E. Purkitt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction offers an in-depth view of the secret development and voluntary disarmament of South Africa's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons program, Project Coast. Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess explore how systems used for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in South Africa were acquired and established beyond the gaze of international and domestic political actors. On the basis of archival evidence from Project Coast and their own extensive interviews with military and political officials, Purkitt and Burgess consider what motivates countries to acquire and build such powerful weaponry and examine when and how decisions are made to dismantle a military arsenal voluntarily. Questions such as how to destroy weapons safely and keep them from reappearing on international markets are considered along with comparative strategies for successful disarmament in other nation-states.

Author : Chandré Gould
Publisher : United Nations Publications UNIDIR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Coast written by Chandré Gould and published by United Nations Publications UNIDIR. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Coast was the codename for a covert programme, established by the South African apartheid government in 1981, to develop a range of chemical and biological agents intended for use against opponents of the regime within and outside the state. This book examines the history of the project, its operation outside ordinary political, military and financial controls, through to its eventual demise in 1995. It draws on information made public at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, as well as evidence presented at the criminal trial of Dr Wouter Basson, the project's director.

Author : Marlene Burger
Publisher : Zebra
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets and Lies written by Marlene Burger and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging 'total war' during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a 'total strategy', including secret and unconventional means to fight the perceived 'total onslaught' against the apartheid regime. Against that background, a group of scientists under military guidance crossed the threshold of an arcane realm, familiar to ordinary citizens only through the imaginations of fiction writers - a world marked by cove.

Author : Brian Rappert
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781431424856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dis-eases of Secrecy written by Brian Rappert and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1981 and 1995, a top-secret chemical and biological warfare program titled Project Coast was established and maintained by South Africa's apartheid government. Under the leadership of Wouter Basson, Project Coast scientists were involved in a number of dubious activities, including the mass production of ecstasy, the development of covert assassination weapons and the manufacture of chemical poisons designed to be undetectable post-mortem. Dis-eases of Secrecy is a retrospective analysis of Project Coast.

Author : Albert J. Mauroni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598840282
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chemical and Biological Warfare written by Albert J. Mauroni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough handbook covering the facts, history, and controversies surrounding our most controversial and misunderstood unconventional weapons. Unlike most books on this topic, the expanded second edition of Mauroni's popular reference handbook is neither sensationalistic nor moralistic. Instead, it offers readers a reasoned, thorough, and fact-based introduction to this highly charged issue. Covering the period from World War I through the Iraq War, Chemical and Biological Warfare not only describes the development of key chemical and biological agents, such as anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, VEE, Q fever, and botulinum toxin, it also assesses the threats we face, compares military CB warfare with terrorist incidents, explains effective defensive measures, and clarifies the responsibilities of the various federal agencies charged to address these issues. With extensive new material, this edition provides an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic.