Chemical warfare

Chemical warfare toxicology

by Worek, Franz, Thiermann, Horst, Jenner, John

fromIssues in toxicology (Print)

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Despite ongoing efforts to prohibit the production, storage and use of chemical warfare agents recent world events highlight the enduring threat to the population from these agents. Research efforts in various countries have resulted in novel insights into chemical warfare toxic…

Chemical Warfare Toxicology

by Tattersall, John, Somerville, Doug, Gearhart, Jeffery, Worek, Franz, Thiermann, Horst, Jenner, John, Timperley, Chris, Black, Robin, David, Jonathan, Jugg, Bronwen, Kehe, Kai, Masson, Patrick, Mumford, Helen, Noort, Daan, Read, Robert, Steinritz, Dirk

fromIssues in Toxicology Ser

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Despite ongoing efforts to prohibit the production, storage and use of chemical warfare agents recent world events highlight the enduring threat to the population from these agents. Research efforts in various countries have resulted in novel insights into chemical warfare toxic…

Handbook of chemical and biological warfare agents

by Ellison, D. Hank

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The Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Volume 2: Pathogens, Mid-Spectrum, and Incapacitating Agents, Third Edition provides rapid access to key data to response professionals and decision-makers on a broad range of agents and pathogens. This volume presents info…

Toxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of World …

by Smith, Susan L.

fromCritical issues in health and medicine

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"Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects…

The age of the gas mask: how British civilians faced the terrors of total …

by Grayzel, Susan R.

fromStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

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The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual an…

The age of the gas mask: how British civilians faced the terrors of total …

by Grayzel, Susan R.

fromStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

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"It was a bitterly cold evening, and I had just finished giving a talk that shared the glimmerings of a new research project that looked seriously at how the gas mask, a peculiar object that came into being in 1915, could elucidate what it meant to face total war. At that point,…

The age of the gas mask: how British civilians faced the terrors of total …

by Grayzel, Susan R.

fromStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

0 Type: Book

"It was a bitterly cold evening, and I had just finished giving a talk that shared the glimmerings of a new research project that looked seriously at how the gas mask, a peculiar object that came into being in 1915, could elucidate what it meant to face total war. At that point,…

No place to run: the Canadian Corps and gas warfare in the First W…

by Cook, Tim

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"Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the importance of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. No Place to Run shows that this chemical plague was a serious threat even after gas masks were introduced." "Tim Cook uses diaries, letters, reminiscences, p…