Weapons of terror. Freeing the world of nuclear, biological and chemical arms. Ed. by the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Stockholm, Sweden).

Widmungsexemplar. Vom Hans Blix f�r den damaligen Au�nminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier signiert. Einband leicht bestossen. - Nuclear, biological and chemical arms are the most inhumane of all weapons. They are rightly called weapons of mass destruction and weapons of terror. Designed to terrify as well as destroy, these weapons can, in the hands of either states or terrorists, cause destruction on a vastly greater scale than any conventional weapons. They have the potential to kill thousands and thousands of people in a single attack, and their effects may persist in the environment and in our bodies, in some cases indefinitely. So long as any state has such weapons - especially nuclear arms -others will want them. So long as any such weapons remain in any state's arsenal, there is a risk that they will one day be used, by design or accident. Any such use would be catastrophic. In this report, the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Dr Hans Blix, confronts this global challenge and presents 60 recommendations on what the world community - national governments and civil society - can and should do.