War of Nerves Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

Name: War of Nerves Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
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ISBN: 9781400032334

ISBN-10: 1400032334

ISBN-13: 9781400032334

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Authors: Jonathan Tucker

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In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long debate over the military utility and morality of chemical warfare, from the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915 to Hitler’s reluctance to use nerve agents (he believed, incorrectly, that the U.S. could retaliate in kind) to Saddam Hussein’s gassing of his own people, and concludes with the emergent threat of…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Prologue: Live-Agent Training



The Chemistry of War



IG Farben



Perverted Science



Twilight of the Gods



Fight for the Spoils



Research and Development



Building the Stockpile



Chemical Arms Race



Agent Venomous



Yemen and After



Incident at Skull Valley



New Fears



Binary Debate



Silent Spread



Peace and War



Whistle-Blower



The Tokyo Subway



The Emerging Threat


Epilogue: Toward Abolition


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index