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Six-legged Soldiers
''Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War'' is a nonfiction scientific warfare book written by award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor, Jeffrey A. Lockwood. Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, the book explores the history of bioterrorism, entomological warfare, biological warfare, and the prevention of agro-terrorism from the earliest times to modern threats.〔 Lockwood, an entomologist, preceded this book with ''Ethical issues in biological control'' (1997) and ''Locust: The devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier'' (2004), among others.
==Summary==
''Six-Legged Soldiers'' gives detailed examples of entomological warfare: using buckets of scorpions during a fortress siege, catapulting beehives ("bee bombs") across a castle wall, civilians as human guinea pigs in an effort to weaponize the plague, bombarding civilians from the air with infection-bearing insects, and assassin bugs placed on prisoners to eat away their flesh.〔〔 〕 Lockwood also describes a domestic ecoterrorism example with the 1989 threat to release the Medfly (''Ceratitis capitata'') within California's crop belt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Six-Legged Soldiers )〕 The last chapter highlights western nations' vulnerability to terrorist attacks.
Interviewed about the book by BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the author describes how a terrorist with a suitcase could bring diseases into a country. "I think a small terrorist cell could very easily develop an insect-based weapon."
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