War of Nerves; Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 479, [3] pages. List of Illustrations. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Jonathan B. Tucker (August 2, 1954 – July 31, 2011) was a United States chemical and biological weapons expert. After finishing his studies Tucker worked as an arms control specialist for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the U.S. State Department. He was an editor at High Technology and Scientific American magazines and wrote about military technologies, biotechnology, and biomedical research. Tucker was a UN weapons biological inspector in Iraq in February 1995. From 1996, he served as founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He was a professional staff member for the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism. 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 chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long debate over the military utility and morality of chemical warfare, from the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915 to Hitler’s reluctance to use nerve agents (he believed, incorrectly, that the U.S. could retaliate in kind) to Saddam Hussein’s gassing of his own people, and concludes with the emergent threat of chemical terrorism. Moving beyond history to the twenty-first century, War of Nerves makes clear that we are at a crossroads that could lead either to the further spread of these weapons or to their ultimate abolition. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Chemical Warfare, Chemical Agent, IG Farben, Research and Development, Arms Race, Binary, Skull Valley, Aum Shinrikyo, Edgewood Arsenal, Dugway Proving Ground, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Porton Down, Protective Gear, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Sarin, Tabun, Te
ISBN: 9780375422294
[Book #78091]
Price: $50.00