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 and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them While in the twentieth century most of our arms control effort 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