Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the cros…
Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the cros…
Deadly Embrace explains how the Francoist forces were unable to defeat Moroccan guerillas and turned to chemical weapons to break the impasse. Later the Francoists used Moroccan troops to destroy the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Combining military, political, c…
This study is concerned with the potential misuse of advances in neuroscience. Recently, fears surrounding the abuse of benignly-intended research in the life sciences --the dual-use problem -- have focused on 'Gain-of Function' experiments, in which deadly influenza viruses hav…
"Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts. An invaluable resource for academics, policy makers, students, and the media, this atlas include…
Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government-made up of Eur…
This report brings together a number of studies undertaken on all aspects of sea dumping in Australia and its Territories. These were previously available in a number of disparate sources and have been collated here for convenience. At the date of publication, sea dumping in Aus…
A compilation of reports previously published separately.
"This book describes nerve agents and vesicants, their decomposition and their degradation products' chemistry as well as their toxicity including a list of detection techniques of nerve agents and their degradation products"--
This book discusses the principles, instrumentation, and context for applying technologies such as ion mobility spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, colorimetric chemistry, and flame ionization to the detection of TICs and lethal CWAs. It conveys techniques - some of which have …
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…
"A history of the ways in which ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional warfare, drawing on myth, science, and history and told Mayor's scrupulous, yet entertaining style"--
"A history of the ways in which ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional warfare, drawing on myth, science, and history and told Mayor's scrupulous, yet entertaining style"--
