Biological Chemical Warfare category: 80 books
War of Nerves
Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This highly informative quick reference guide - updated through 2011 - provides essential information for Air Force active duty, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, emergency essential civilians and contract personnel. The introduction states:
An Introduction for Airmen - As an expeditionary...
Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called 'the poor man's atomic bomb,' yet they cannot...
Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East
Japanese Biological Warfare in China 1933-45
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This is a book about strategy and war fighting in the midst of a revolution in military affairs as the world moves into the twenty-first century. Its 11 essays examine topics such as military operations against a well-armed rogue state or NASTT (NBC-arming sponsor of terrorism and intervention) state;...
Villainous Compounds
Chemical Weapons and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Most studies of modern chemical warfare begin with World War I and the widespread use of poison gas by both sides in the conflict. However, as Guy R. Hasegawa reveals in this fascinating study, numerous chemical agents were proposed during the Civil War era. As combat commenced, Hasegawa shows, a...
Secrets & Lies
Wouter Basson and South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging ‘total war’ during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a ‘total strategy’, including secret...
Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War
Riot Control Agents in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book is an analysis of the threat of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for biological warfare. Evaluating the potential threats posed by advances in biotechnology, especially genetically modified organisms (GMOs)...
Terrorism, Retaliation, and Victory
Awaken the Soul of America to Defeat Terrorism Without Casualties
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
We could use some help. Whatever you think of the present situation in Iraq, about President Bush and our nations Global War on Terror, about all the political spin that is being put on current events, we can all agree: we could use some help.
The threat of terrorist attack persists; the threat...
Hellfire Boys
The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World¿s Deadliest Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
An explosive look into the dawn of chemical warfare during World War I
"A terrifying piece of history that almost no one knows." - Hampton Sides
In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries...
Hidden Atrocities
Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trials and their counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo Trial failed to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the worst of war crimes: inhumane...
A Higher Form of Killing
The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The use of chemical and biological weapons on the battlefields of history is not a new phenomenon. Although this practice is contrary to international treaties and customs, it has not precluded...