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The purpose of this chapter is to list briefly the main Soviet CB agents and weapons delivery systems, together with current research and development into new agents; to match capabilities to systems and stockpiles; and to look at Soviet perceptions of the NATO CBW threat.
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Chapter 2 Soviet Chemical and Biological Capability
N. V. Ogarkov, Istoriya uchit bditelnosti (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1985) ch. 3, passim.
J. M. Collins, US—Soviet Military Balance 1980–1985 ( PergamonBrassey’s International Defence Publishers, New York, 1985 ) p. 92.
B. Ye. Savkin, The Basic Principles of Operational Art and Tactics (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1972 ( USAF trans.)), and C. J. Dick, ‘Soviet Chemical Warfare Capabilities’.
N. I. Karkchiev, Toksikologiya OV i zashchita of oruzhiya massovogo porazheniya (Tashkent: Meditsine, 1973) 2nd edn, ch. 9, pp. 231–254, Raketnoe toplivo i tecknicheskie zhidkosti’ (taken from J. Erickson, ‘Soviet Chemical Warfare Capability’, p. 3).
See J. Hemsley, Soviet Troop Control (Brasseys, Pergamon Press, 1982), in particular ch. 8, passim pp. 169–182 for a detailed exposition covering the problems experienced by the Soviet Armed Forces following the introduction of operational and tactical automated C3 systems. Also J. T. Westwood, op. cit.
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Hemsley, J. (1987). Soviet Chemical and Biological Capability. In: The Soviet Biochemical Threat to NATO. RUSI Defence Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18938-0_2
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