Biological Chemical Warfare category: 80 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Air Force intelligence professionals play key roles in combating weapons of mass (WMD) destruction at combatant commands and components and national intelligence agencies. The Air Force, however, does...
Toxic Exposures
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
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 were widespread and...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
by Bruce W. Bennett, Jonathan Kaufman, James Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Adversaries could acquire emerging chemical and biological (CB) agents years before U.S. defense planners recognize those agents, and many more years before the United States establishes a comprehensive defense against them. Gaps in defenses against chemical and biological weapon agents can pose a...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team Management - This regulation instruction prescribes policies, procedures, and responsibilities governing the employment of National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction - Civil Support Teams (WMD-CSTs) in support of the National Guard homeland security,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. President Richard M. Nixon's November 25, 1969, terminated the U.S. offensive biological weapons program on November 25, 1969. This paper seeks to explain why the Soviet government, at...
Aftermath: The Remnants of War
From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the...
The Chemical Weapons Convention
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book provides an article-by-article commentary on the text of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its Annexes, one of the cornerstone disarmament and arms control agreements. It requires the verified elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction and their means of production...
Germs
Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack...
Six-Legged Soldiers
Using Insects as Weapons of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples...
by Thomas R. Mockaitis
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This volume offers a comprehensive history of warfare since 1648, covering conventional and unconventional operations and demonstrating how most modern wars have been hybrid affairs that involved both. The book uses a broad range of conflicts to explore the societal forces that have shaped wars.
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Mind Wars
Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security.” -LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Fascinating and frightening.” -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The...
by Australia. Department of Defence, Army History Unit, Geoff Plunkett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there was a problem - it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment....