Author: Alan M. Pearson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739114391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons examines the promise and peril behind weapons based on natural or synthetic biochemical compounds meant to cause rapid incapacitation but not death. An agent has yet to be found that can effectively incapacitate people without risk of death, but revolutionary advances coupled with the changing nature of conflict and warfare has generated renewed government interest. The authors provide a comprehensive survey of the issues associated with their development and use, and explore a wide range of issues, from science, to history, to current military interest, arms control, and international law. Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril? will be of interest to all who are concerned about the proliferation of such weapons.
Author: Mark Wheelis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674045130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated biological weapons programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: Michael Crowley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137467142
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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This thoroughly researched study highlights the international community's failure to regulate contemporary state research, development, marketing and/or deployment of riot control agents and incapacitating chemical agent weapons.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments
Publisher:
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Category : Biological warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: John Cookson
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583677917
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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An in-depth analysis of nearly all chemical and biological weapons, their effects, and the politics surrounding their deployment.
Author: RONALD G. SUTHERLAND.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309068754
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.
Author: Jacquard Hirshorn Rothschild
Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Explores the possibility of employing nerve gases and germ warfare as weapons in future combat. Discusses the liabilities and advantages of such systems in maintaining and preserving peace.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs
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Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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