E-book
Chemical and biological warfare a reference handbook
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598840285 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1598840282 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xviii, 319 p.) - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., c2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Defining CB Warfare -- In the Beginning-World War I -- The Threat Increases-World War II -- The Cold War Starts -- The Vietnam Conflict -- Changing Perceptions-1968-1976 -- Disarming the Superpowers -- Continued Proliferation -- Homeland Security Concerns -- The U.S. Offensive CB Warfare Program -- Herbicides, Incendiaries, and Tear Gas -- Human Volunteer Testing -- Open Air Testing -- The 1968 Dugway Proving Ground Incident -- President Nixon's 1972 Biological Weapons Program Declaration -- The Binary Chemical Weapons Program -- The U.S. Chemical Demilitarization Program -- CB Warfare Agent Exposure after the Persian Gulf War -- Developing Medical Countermeasures against BW Agents -- Military Response to Terrorist Use of CB Weapons -- Developing a National Strategy for Bioterrorism -- Europe -- The Former Soviet Union and Russia Today -- East Asia -- South Asia -- Middle East and Africa -- The Americas -- The Non-State Actors -- Early History (1000 BC?-1899) -- Birth of Modern Chemical Warfare (1915-1946) -- Cold War Era (1947-1990) -- Proliferation of CB Weapons (1968 to the Present) -- CB Warfare Timeline -- Dr. Kenneth Alibek (1950-) -- General Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956) -- Sir Frederick Banting (1891-1941) -- Dr. Wouter Basson (1951-) -- President George H.W. Bush (1924-) -- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -- General William M. Creasy (1905-1987) -- Major General Amos A. Fries (1873-1963) -- Dr. Fritz Haber (1868-1934) -- Major General John J. Hayes (1914-2004) -- President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) -- Captain Alfred T. Mahan (1840-1914) -- Matthew S. Meselson (1930-) -- President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) -- William C. Patrick III -- General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) -- Major General William Porter (1886-1973) -- President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945 -- Dr. Gerhart Schrader (1903-1990) -- Lieutenant General Ishii Shiro (1892-1959) -- Major General William L. Sibert (1860-1935) -- Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) -- Major General Alden H. Waitt (1892-1981) -- Major General Gerald Watson (1935-) -- Chemical Warfare Agents -- Chemical Weapon Delivery Systems -- Biological Warfare Agents -- Biological Weapon Delivery Systems -- Defenses against CB Weapons -- The Traditional Warfight -- Protecting Military Installations -- Homeland Security -- Focusing on the Response -- Gas at Caporetto -- Egyptian Use of Chemical Weapons -- The Iran-Iraq War -- Operation Desert Shield/Storm -- Mr. Anthrax Goes to Washington -- Directory of Organizations: -- Governmental/Military Groups -- Private Organizations -- Books and Journal Articles -- Journals, Bulletins, and Newsletters -- Government Documents and Agency Publications -- Internet Information Sources. |
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