Intelligence, Ignorance, and Diplomacy in the Cold War

Drawing on perspectives from “ignorance studies,” this article examines a case of multiple types of expertise and ignorance within the geo-political context of the Cold War. It revisits a suspected breach of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). In 1979, an outbreak of anthrax occurred in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brian Balmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2021-11-01
Series:Journal for the History of Knowledge
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Online Access:https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view/11369