Biological Chemical Warfare category: 80 books
Biological Threats in the 21st Century
The Politics, People, Science and Historical Roots
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the politics, people, science and historical roots of contemporary biological threats through up-to-date, rigorous and accessible chapters written...
Iran's Strategic Weapons Programmes
A Net Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The possibility that Iran will acquire a nuclear weapons capability poses a significant threat to the stability of the Middle East and a potential challenge to the long-term viability of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Since 2003, diplomatic efforts by the EU-3 (United Kingdom, France and Germany)...
The Demon in the Freezer
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
**“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways...
by Thomas Mayer-Maguire, Brian Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Poison gas was one of the most feared weapons of its day and added a terrifying new dimension to modern warfare. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas was a shell dressing, soaked in his own urine and then tied around his face. By 1918, the British...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Terror Operations: Case Studies in Terrorism is a U.S Army handbook that presents several terrorist incidents in a case study methodology. This document provides an introduction to the nature of terrorism and recognition of terrorist threats to U.S. military forces. A common situational awareness...
The Weaponizing of Biology
Bioterrorism, Biocrime and Biohacking
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Focusing on three forms of biological threat—bioterrorism, biocrime and biohacking—the author examines the history of biowarfare and terrorism. Groups drawn to biological aggression are discussed, along with the array of viruses, bacteria and toxins they might use in their attacks. The phenomenon...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In 2001, the United States suffered from a bioterrorist anthrax attack. The US government recognized that it was unprepared to respond to such bioterrorist attacks. This monograph will argue...
Almighty
Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**
ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure...
A Higher Form of Killing
Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Army Field Manual serves as the foundation for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)-Civil Support Team (CST) doctrine and focuses on the organization, mission, command and control (C2), and operations of the WMD-CST....
Reflections:
Memories of Sacrifices Shared and Comrades Lost in the Line of Duty
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
About Reflections Reflections is a memoir of the Vietnam War. The book paints a picture of the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans and the vilification they endured. The book is also a tribute to Colonel George S. Patton III, who was a marvelous mentor and an inspirational leader. He was a tactical genius...
by Donald A. MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Story of the Great War is a comprehensive and masterly account of World War 1 first published in 1920. The book stands up a century after the Armistice, and is a memorable description of what were then recent events. Telling the story of each major conflict throughout the continent,...
by Frank A. Settle Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
The atomic bomb is not only the most powerful weapon ever used in the history of warfare: it is also the most significant in terms of its long-term impact on U.S. military power and policy, and as the reason behind the conflict that raged for four decades without actually happening—the Cold War.
General...
Waiting for an Army to Die
The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
"I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s...