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Books on: chemical warfare and vietnam

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Handbook of Chemical Warfare and Terrorism

Book by Steven L.Hoenig; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Chemical Agents (Munitions)--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Chemical Terrorism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Chemical Warfare--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc

Collections: Entire Library

The increased threat of chemical terrorism and warfare makes a quick, comprehensive guide more vital than ever. Forensic chemist Steven L. Hoenig has compiled information from diverse sources to produce this ready reference with details on various chemicals, including identification tips, symptoms ...
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The increased threat of chemical terrorism and warfare makes a quick, comprehensive guide more vital than ever. Forensic chemist Steven L. Hoenig has compiled information from diverse sources to produce this ready reference with details on various chemicals, including identification tips, symptoms and treatment procedures, protective gear necessary to counter each threat, and a step-by-step description of decontamination procedures.
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America's Struggle with Chemical-Biological Warfare

Book by Albert J. Mauroni; Praeger Publishers, 2000

Subjects:

Biological Warfare--United States, Chemical Warfare--Safety Measures, Chemical Warfare--United States, Decontamination (From Gases, Chemicals, Etc.)

Collections: Entire Library

Fear and ignorance have colored the perception of chemical and biological (CB) warfare both in the public and military spheres. Media coverage following the alleged gassing of sheep at Dugway Proving Ground in 1968 has led most people to believe that CB warfare is an unstoppable doomsday weapon of ...
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Fear and ignorance have colored the perception of chemical and biological (CB) warfare both in the public and military spheres. Media coverage following the alleged gassing of sheep at Dugway Proving Ground in 1968 has led most people to believe that CB warfare is an unstoppable doomsday weapon of mass destruction. Yet, in 1972, General Creighton Abrams, the Army Chief of Staff, attempted to disestablish the Chemical Corps because he saw no need for it. Had that decision not been reversed in 1976, there would not have been any chemical defense specialists or equipment available for Operation Desert Storm in 1990.
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Project Coast: Apartheid's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme

Book by Chandré Gould, Peter Folb, Robert Berold; United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 2002

Subjects:

Biological Warfare--South Africa, Chemical Warfare--South Africa, South Africa--Politics And Government--1948-1994

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Industrial Research CW Chemical warfare CWC Chemical Weapons Convention...summarised as follows: ? To develop chemical warfare agents that could be used by...reactively use non- lethal chemical warfare , the integration of chemical...
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Shadows and Substance: The Chemical Weapons Convention

Book by Benoit Morel, Kyle Olson; Westview Press, 1993

Subjects:

Chemical Arms Control, Chemical Warfare (International Law)

Collections: Entire Library

...badly wounded by the war in Vietnam. But chemical industry leaders do not speak...encouraged by beleaguered military chemical warfare services, of far more deadly...utterly wrong--that to resort to chemical warfare is to violate a taboo of a...
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Ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention

Book by Brad Roberts; Westview Press, 1994

Subjects:

Chemical Arms Control, Chemical Warfare (International Law), Convention On The Prohibition Of The Development, Production, Stockpiling, And Use Of Chemical Weapons And On Their Destruction--(1993), United States--Foreign Relations--Treaties

Collections: Entire Library

...weapons, chemical warfare had no impact on...materially affected by chemical weapons today...mechanisms in Vietnam were direct exchanges...every case but Vietnam. National capabilities...other aspects of chemical warfare that can shift...

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Journal Articles on: chemical warfare and vietnam

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Psychological Aspects of Chemical Defense and Warfare

Journal article by James W. Stokes, Louis E. Banderet; Military Psychology, Vol. 9, 1997

Subjects:

Psychology, Military--Periodicals, United States--Armed Forces--Periodicals

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...combat by any country in World War II. Post Vietnam War The use of chemical and perhaps biological weapons by the Soviet Union...the ambiguity inherent in documenting use of CBR warfare in remote areas. Mustard and nerve agents were...
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The Chemical Weapons Convention: Political and Constitutional Issues

Journal article by Ronald D. Rotunda; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 15, 1998

Subjects:

Arms control--Verification, Chemical weapons--Laws, regulations, etc., Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 1993, Representative government and representation--International aspects, Searches and seizures--Laws, regulations, etc., Treaties--Interpretation and construction, United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 4, United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 5

Collections: Entire Library

...not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.(21) "Chemical Weapons" are defined as including--"Toxic chemicals...there was the use of chemical weapons by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, and by the Iraqis during...
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Environmental Controls in Vietnam

Journal article by Tannetje Lien Bryant, Keith Akers; Environmental Law, Vol. 29, 1999

Subjects:

Environmental protection--Laws, regulations, etc., Vietnam--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...residues caused by chemical spraying during the Vietnam War of 1965 to...high levels of chemical and pesticide...successful this Vietnamese environmental...management of toxic chemicals and such wastes...felt that the Vietnamese environmental...
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A Question of Chemistry: Controlling the Spread and Use of Chemical Weapons

Journal article by Leah Litman; Harvard International Review, Vol. 27, 2005

Subjects:

Chemical industry--Environmental aspects, Chemical industry--Technology application, Chemical weapons--Usage, Herbicides--Environmental aspects, Herbicides--Technology application, Pesticides industry--Environmental aspects, Pesticides industry--Technology application, Weapons of mass destruction--Control, World War I, 1914-1918

Collections: Entire Library

...Orange, was used by the United States in the Vietnam War. Most recently, Iraq used chemical weapons, including mustard gas and tabun, against...gas. Prompted by these revolutions in chemical warfare, the Geneva Protocol branched into separate...
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Guerrilla Warfare: When Taking Care of Your Troops Leads to War Crimes

Journal article by David Kellogg; Journal of Power and Ethics, Vol. 1, 2000

Subjects:

Atrocities--Causes of, Ethics--Research, Guerrilla warfare--Moral and ethical aspects, Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects, War--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...noncombatants that guerrilla warfare conduces to further...casualties to innocent Vietnamese civilians were not...objective of insurgency warfare is the gaining of...effect that the Vietnamese people obviously...that the war in Vietnam was not in fact won with guerrilla warfare, but with a main...

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Magazine Articles on: chemical warfare and vietnam

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Chemical Warfare in the 1920s & 30s

Magazine article by Sebastian Balfour; History Today, Vol. 52, June 2002

Subjects:

Chemical warfare--History, Morocco--History, Mustard gas--Usage, Spain--Relations with Morocco, Twentieth century--History, War--20th century

Collections: History, Entire Library

Chemical warfare in the 1920s 30s...Spain and Italy launched chemical offensives against their...After Hiroshima and the Vietnam War, it may seem whimsical...re-affirm the principle that chemical and bacteriological weapons...
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Chemical Weapons

Magazine article by Jez Littlewood; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 23, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...stockpiles. Hence, whereas Iraqs chemical warfare capability and its use of the weapons are fully documented, Syrias chemical weapons program receives scant attention...herbicides, notably Agent Orange, in Vietnam. Iraq also suffered no serious consequences...
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Colombia: Victims of a Secret Chemical War

Magazine article by Sue Branford; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 24, 2005

Subjects:

Chemical warfare--Environmental aspects, Chemical warfare--Social aspects, Colombia--Military aspects, United States--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...of this century, so reminiscent of the past centurys Vietnam war, are slowly coming to light. On 27 October Sue Branford and Hugh OShaughnessy launch Chemical Warfare in Colombia: the costs of coca fumigation, published...
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WMDs: The Biggest Lie of All; Chemical and Biological Weapons Are a Red Herring. They Are Banned Because They Provide Low-Cost Defence to Poor Nations. Cluster Bombs Are Just as Lethal

Magazine article by Dan Rosenheck; New Statesman, Vol. 132, August 25, 2003

Subjects:

Arms control agreements--Analysis, Chemical warfare--History, Developing countries--Military policy, Military policy--International aspects, Weapons of mass destruction--International aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...became major targets in warfare, the western powers...knowledge of research into chemical weapons, and convinced...cold war. During the Vietnam war--where the Americans...troops. 1985, Cambodia: Vietnam uses hydrogen cyanide...uses Iranian-supplied chemical weapons against Chadian...
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The Case Is Not Proved: "Yellow Rain."

Magazine article by Erik Guyot; The Nation, Vol. 239, November 10, 1984

Subjects:

Chemical warfare--Investigations, Soviet Union--Military policy, Yellow rain (Biochemical weapon)--Investigations

Collections: Entire Library

...allies in Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea...breed of chemical warfare agent--mycotoxins...term for chemical warfare agents...assisted by the Vietnamese and the Russians...Lao and the Vietnamese in the post-1975...numerous chemical warfare attacks by...

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Newspaper Articles on: chemical warfare and vietnam

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TRAVEL: PEOPLE POWERED; Crossing the Road Is an Act of Faith in Vietnam

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tourists to take home are a constant reminder the sins of the invader dont die in one generation. In Vietnam birth defects due to chemical warfare are still very much in evidence. Yet no one shows animosity towards us. Or towards the groups of French...
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Weapons Treaty Outlaws Use of Tear Gas during War; Critics of Measure Say Nonlethal Chemical Could Reduce Deaths

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 30, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...not to use riot-control agents as a method of warfare." It defines such agents as "any chemical ... which can produce rapidly in humans sensory...signed by President Ford in 1975 after the Vietnam War. This meant renouncing the use of herbicides...
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Honoring All Who Died

Newspaper article by James Zumwalt; The Washington Times, April 25, 2000

Subjects:

Vietnam

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...related to Agent Orange (the chemical defoliant used to deny concealment to the enemy in Vietnam) exposure and suicides...evolution of 20th-century warfare, we have seen weapons employed...friends." Thus, death in Vietnam came not only from enemy...
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Pictures by the Man Who Didn't Look Away

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 28, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...horrific legacy of chemical warfare in Vietnam has opened in Newcastle...harrowing effects of chemical warfare on the people of Vietnam. He refused to...victims of the lethal chemical Agent Orange. This...Americans during the Vietnam War to deforest...
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Fence Post

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 19, 2007

Subjects:

Hussein, Saddam

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep "trying...American lives per month and Vietnam caused 500 a month over...60 years to equal the Vietnam deaths. We have not been...during the height of the Vietnam war as a Russian interpreter...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: chemical warfare and vietnam

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Chemical Warfare

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to destroy crops or vegetation, as Agent Orange was used by the United States during the Vietnam War. The potential effectiveness of chemical warfare is increasing with improved methods of dissemination, such as artillery shells, grenades...
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Vietnam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...iron-and-steel complex at Thai Nguyen, a chemical combine at Viet Tri, and a...Communist insurgents in South Vietnam (the Viet Cong ), who operated...conflict expanded into open warfare. The United States, deeply...non-Communist government of South Vietnam, became increasingly involved...

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