A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern invent…
Examines the chemical warfare capabilities of the Soviet Union and the dangerous threat this new type of weaponry represents to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms…
There are two central themes in this report: the first is the belief of th authoring committee committee in a serious potential threat to U.S. naval forces from chemical or biological weapons; the second is the fact that the Department of the Navy needs to establish a more robus…
