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2. See Falk, Richard (1990) ‘Inhibiting Reliance on Biological Weaponry: the Role and Relevance of International Law’, in Wright, S. (ed.) Preventing a Biological Arms Race (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press) pp. 240–66;
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