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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to al-Qaeda, Tucker, Jonathan,
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375422293
ISBN-13
9780375422294
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46860335
Product Key Features
Book Title
War of Nerves : Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
30.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-050053
Reviews
Praise for Jonathan Tucker's Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox "Fascinating [and] revealing. A sobering look at this new type of warfare . . . Highly informative and important." -Chris Patsilelis,Houston Chronicle "Quickly paced, deftly written." -Mark Caldwell,Newsday "Superb . . . A fascinating tale." -David L. Dunn, M.D.,The New England Journal of Medicine "A truelife tale of heroes and villains, frighteningly real and marvelously told." -Kirkus Reviews "Difficult to put down . . . Tucker breathes new life into mostly familiar material." -Publishers Weekly "Well-written, thoroughly documented." -William Beatty,Booklist "Suspenseful, and scientifically accurate." -Ed Regis,The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Jonathan Tucker' s "Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox " " Fascinating [and] revealing. A sobering look at this new type of warfare . . . Highly informative and important." -- Chris Patsilelis, "Houston Chronicle" " Quickly paced, deftly written." -- Mark Caldwell, "Newsday" " Superb . . . A fascinating tale." -- David L. Dunn, M.D., "The New England Journal of Medicine" " A true- life tale of heroes and villains, frighteningly real and marvelously told." -- "Kirkus Reviews" " Difficult to put down . . . Tucker breathes new life into mostly familiar material." -- "Publishers Weekly" " Well-written, thoroughly documented." -- William Beatty, "Booklist" " Suspenseful, and scientifically accurate." -- Ed Regis, "The New York Times Book Review", Praise for Jonathan Tucker's Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox "Fascinating [and] revealing. A sobering look at this new type of warfare . . . Highly informative and important." -Chris Patsilelis,Houston Chronicle "Quickly paced, deftly written." -Mark Caldwell,Newsday "Superb . . . A fascinating tale." -David L. Dunn, M.D.,The New England Journal of Medicine "A truelife tale of heroes and villains, frighteningly real and marvelously told." -Kirkus Reviews "Difficult to put down . . . Tucker breathes new life into mostly familiar material." -Publishers Weekly "Well-written, thoroughly documented." -William Beatty,Booklist "Suspenseful, and scientifically accurate." -Ed Regis,The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Jonathan Tucker's Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox "Fascinating [and] revealing. A sobering look at this new type of warfare . . . Highly informative and important." -Chris Patsilelis, Houston Chronicle "Quickly paced, deftly written." -Mark Caldwell, Newsday "Superb . . . A fascinating tale." -David L. Dunn, M.D., The New England Journal of Medicine "A truelife tale of heroes and villains, frighteningly real and marvelously told." -Kirkus Reviews "Difficult to put down . . . Tucker breathes new life into mostly familiar material." -Publishers Weekly "Well-written, thoroughly documented." -William Beatty, Booklist "Suspenseful, and scientifically accurate." -Ed Regis, The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Jonathan Tucker's "Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox "Fascinating [and] revealing. A sobering look at this new type of warfare . . . Highly informative and important." --Chris Patsilelis, "Houston Chronicle "Quickly paced, deftly written." --Mark Caldwell, "Newsday "Superb . . . A fascinating tale." --David L. Dunn, M.D., "The New England Journal of Medicine "A true-life tale of heroes and villains, frighteningly real and marvelously told." --"Kirkus Reviews "Difficult to put down . . . Tucker breathes new life into mostly familiar material." --"Publishers Weekly "Well-written, thoroughly documented." --William Beatty, "Booklist "Suspenseful, and scientifically accurate." --Ed Regis, "The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
Statesmen, generals, and diplomats have long debated the military utility and morality of chemical warfare. In 1925, the use of chemical weapons in war was prohibited by international treaty; in 1997 the ban on the use of chemical weapons was extended to cover their development, production, and stockpiling. Nevertheless, Iraq employed chemical weapons on a large scale as recently as the 1980s, first during its eight-year war with Iran and then against its rebellious Kurdish minority. In "War of Nerves," Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, writes about chemical warfare from World War I to the present. The author makes clear how, at the turn of the twentieth century, the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield became feasible and cheap; how Germany first developed and employed toxic weapons during World War I, burying some 6,000 cylinders (containing 168 tons of chlorine) opposite the Allied trenches defending the town of Ypres, in Belgium. German troops simultaneously opened the chlorine cylinders, panicking two French divisions and tearing a gap four miles wide in the Ypres front. Chemical warfare had begun: five months later, the Allies retaliated with their own use of chlorine gas. By the end of the war, chemical warfare had inflicted roughly one million casualties, 90,000 of them fatal. Tucker writes about the synthesis of the first nerve agent-- Tabun-- in 1936 by a German industrial chemist developing new pesticides how its high toxicity made it unusable as a pesticide but viable as a weapon for the Nazi regime. A few years later, two even more toxic nerve agents-- Sarin and Soman-- were developedfor military use. Hitler never employed this secret weapon; German intelligence concluded-- incorrectly-- that the Allies had developed a similar capability. Following World War II, we see the rise of a Cold War chemical competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that paralleled the nuclear arms race, as each pursued the secrets of the German nerve agents; how the United States and Britain planned to mass-produce Sarin (only the United States did); how the superpowers developed and mass-produced V-agents, a new generation of nerve agents of extraordinary potency; and how nerve agents spread to the Third World, including their suspected use by Egypt during the Yemen Civil War (1963-- 1967), as well as Iraq's use of nerve agents in its war against Iran and on its own people. Iraq's use of nerve agents hastened the negotiation of an international treaty banning the use of chemical weapons, which went into effect in 1997. Although the treaty now has more than 175 member-states, al-Qaeda and related terrorist groups are seeking to acquire nerve agents. In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker makes clear that we are at a crossroads that could lead either to the further spread of these weapons or to their ultimate abolition., From an internationally recognized expert on chemical and biological warfare (author of "Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox") comes a history of chemical weapons, including nerve agents, the most lethal means of chemical warfare., Statesmen, generals, and diplomats have long debated the military utility and morality of chemical warfare. In 1925, the use of chemical weapons in war was prohibited by international treaty; in 1997 the ban on the use of chemical weapons was extended to cover their development, production, and stockpiling. Nevertheless, Iraq employed chemical weapons on a large scale as recently as the 1980s, first during its eight-year war with Iran and then against its rebellious Kurdish minority. InWar of Nerves, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, writes about chemical warfare from World War I to the present. The author makes clear how, at the turn of the twentieth century, the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield became feasible and cheap; how Germany first developed and employed toxic weapons during World War I, burying some 6,000 cylinders (containing 168 tons of chlorine) opposite the Allied trenches defending the town of Ypres, in Belgium. German troops simultaneously opened the chlorine cylinders, panicking two French divisions and tearing a gap four miles wide in the Ypres front. Chemical warfare had begun: five months later, the Allies retaliated with their own use of chlorine gas. By the end of the war, chemical warfare had inflicted roughly one million casualties, 90,000 of them fatal. Tucker writes about the synthesis of the first nerve agent-Tabun-in 1936 by a German industrial chemist developing new pesticides how its high toxicity made it unusable as a pesticide but viable as a weapon for the Nazi regime. A few years later, two even more toxic nerve agents-Sarin and Soman-were developed for military use. Hitler never employed this secret weapon; German intelligence concluded-incorrectly-that the Allies had developed a similar capability. Following World War II, we see the rise of a Cold War chemical competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that paralleled the nuclear arms race, as each pursued the secrets of the German nerve agents; how the United States and Britain planned to mass-produce Sarin (only the United States did); how the superpowers developed and mass-produced V-agents, a new generation of nerve agents of extraordinary potency; and how nerve agents spread to the Third World, including their suspected use by Egypt during the Yemen Civil War (1963-1967), as well as Iraq's use of nerve agents in its war against Iran and on its own people. Iraq's use of nerve agents hastened the negotiation of an international treaty banning the use of chemical weapons, which went into effect in 1997. Although the treaty now has more than 175 member-states, al-Qaeda and related terrorist groups are seeking to acquire nerve agents. In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker makes clear that we are at a crossroads that could lead either to the further spread of these weapons or to their ultimate abolition.
LC Classification Number
UG447.T83 2006
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