Автор: Geissler, Erhard; Woodall, John P.Название: Control of Dual-Threat Agents The Vaccines for Peace Programme (Paperback)ISBN: 0198291728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198291725 Издательство: Oxford AcademРейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: The Vaccines for Peace (VFP) programme is designed to counter reservations about the military misuse of research into vaccines. It focuses on vaccines developed to combat those pathogens and toxins which can be used as weapon agents. In this book a range of experts from fields as diverse as biotechnology, vaccinology, international law, and diplomacy discuss the VFP programme.
Автор: M. Girard DorseyНазвание: Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War IIISBN: 1501768360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501768361 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 16302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty.The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo. Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.
Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty.
The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo.
Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.
Автор: Garrett, Benjamin C Hart, JohnНазвание: A to z of nuclear, biological and chemical warfareISBN: 0810868776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810868779 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersРейтинг: Цена: 9504.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: The A to Z of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare covers the development and use of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons as well as efforts to limit or control the use of these weapons through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, and dictionary entries. Over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries provide a unique s
Автор: Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis; Teresa J. BandoszНазвание: Detoxification of Chemical Warfare AgentsISBN: 3319889885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319889887 Издательство: SpringerРейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that decontaminate chemical warfare agents (CWA) when applied in the vapor phase. It describes multifunctional nanocomposites containing zinc and zirconium (hydr)oxides, graphite oxide and silver or gold nanoparticles as reactive adsorbents for the degradation of the CWAs vapors. In addition it examines in detail the surface properties that are most important in the mineralization performance.
Автор: John ForgeНазвание: The Morality of Weapons Design and Development: Emerging Research and OpportunitiesISBN: 1522539840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522539841 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 25502.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Countries around the globe are continuously investing money into weapon development and manufacturing. While weapon design has been a relevant topic, from the Middle Ages to today, the morality of this practice is not commonly presented in research. The Morality of Weapons Design and Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that presents detailed discussions on ethical dilemmas in weapons design and innovations. While highlighting relevant topics including projectile and nuclear weapons, the true costs of war, design in peacetime, and weapons development and justification, this book is an ideal resource for researchers, engineers, graduate students, and professionals who have an interest in weapons design, development, and ethics.
Автор: Thomas I FaithНазвание: Behind the Gas Mask: The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in War and PeaceISBN: 0252038681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252038686 Издательство: Wiley EDCРейтинг: Цена: 15616.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.
Автор: Peter ThompsonНазвание: The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical ModernityISBN: 1009314823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009314824 Издательство: Cambridge AcademРейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.
Автор: Thomas, Andy Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteНазвание: Effects of Chemical WarfareISBN: 0367649462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367649463 Издательство: Taylor&FrancisРейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: First published in 1985, this book is the result of an exploration of the state papers of the UK with the aim of discovering information about the past use of chemical warfare. This may serve as a point of historical reference in speculation upon the possible nature and consequences of large-scale chemical warfare recurring in Europe.
Автор: Brown Frederic JosephНазвание: Chemical Warfare: A Study in RestraintsISBN: 069162237X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691622378 Издательство: WileyРейтинг: Цена: 7920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Why would a nation, in the midst of a vicious and unrestricted war, hesitate to employ a weapon guaranteed to inflict massive casualties on the enemy? Major Frederic Brown offers here the first critical analysis of this curious World War II phenomenon. He investigates the nature of restraints-political, military, economic, and psychological-operati
Автор: Edward Hagerman, Stephen EndicottНазвание: United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and KoreaISBN: 0253334721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253334725 Издательство: Wiley EDCРейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: [The United States and Biological Warfare] is a major contribution to our understanding of the past involvement by the US and Japanese governments with BW, with important, crucial implications for the future. . . . Pieces of this story, including the Korean War allegations, have been told before, but never so authoritatively, and with such a convincing foundation in historical research. . . . This is a brave and significant scholarly contribution on a matter of great importance to the future of humanity.—Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton UniversityThe United States and Biological Warfare argues persuasively that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman explore the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.For the first time, there is hard evidence that the United States lied both to Congress and the American public in saying that the American biological warfare program was purely defensive and for retaliation only. The truth is that a large and sophisticated biological weapons system was developed as an offensive weapon of opportunity in the post-World War II years. From newly declassified American, Canadian, and British documents, and with the cooperation of the Chinese Central Archives in giving the authors the first access by foreigners to relevant classified documents, Endicott and Hagerman have been able to tell the previously hidden story of the extension of the limits of modern war to include the use of medical science, the most morally laden of sciences with respect to the sanctity of human life. They show how the germ warfare program developed collaboratively by Great Britain, Canada, and the United States during the Second World War, together with information gathered from the Japanese at the end of World War II about their biological warfare technology, was incorporated into an ongoing development program in the United States. Startling evidence from both Chinese and American sources is presented to make the case.An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare.
Автор: Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis; Teresa J. BandoszНазвание: Detoxification of Chemical Warfare AgentsISBN: 3319707590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319707594 Издательство: SpringerРейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that decontaminate chemical warfare agents (CWA) when applied in the vapor phase. It describes multifunctional nanocomposites containing zinc and zirconium (hydr)oxides, graphite oxide and silver or gold nanoparticles as reactive adsorbents for the degradation of the CWAs vapors. In addition it examines in detail the surface properties that are most important in the mineralization performance.
Автор: Garrett Benjamin C.Название: Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare, Second EditionISBN: 1538106833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538106839 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersРейтинг: Цена: 20064.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on terms related to nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.
