This volume is formatted to offer rapid access to listings of non-lethal chemical agents including nerve agents, vesicants, urticants, convulsants, blood agents, and pulmonary agentsas well as toxic industrial materials that are considered potential...Loe edasi...
Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr. Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists agreeing to exclude their open cities from nuclear targeting and to repl...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats....Loe edasi...
The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, exa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2013, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118769119)
This book defines the concepts of biosecurity, biosafety, and biosurety and shows how they relate to one another under the overall framework of biodefense....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199841271)
This book proposes a new framework for achieving global nuclear security in the 21st century. Building on recent developments, such as the remarkable new capabilities of nuclear forensics, and legal and institutional evolution that can be made a tur...Loe edasi...
This introductory text leads readers from the scientific basics to both old and new threats from NBC weapons and agents prepared by noncombatant forces, as well as principles of protection and response management....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199204908)
This book analyses the international law and international organisations that have been constructed to regulate the worldwide proliferation of weapons technologies, particularly those have been classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD) i.e. nu...Loe edasi...
Based on results previously restricted for military use and inaccessible to the public, this practice-oriented handbook introduces the use of enzymes for fast and efficient decontamination of B/C weapons in various scenarios, including terrorist att...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Mar-2007, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780470060032)
Chemical Warfare Agents: Toxicology and Treatment, Second Edition provides a detailed summary of chemical warfare agents, their physico-chemical properties, dispersion and fate in the environment, tooxicology and management of their effects on human...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2002, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812565396)
The purpose of this work is to present an almost forgotten history of secret war research in universities. It tells the true stories of highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II, focusing on the na...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the psychological and performance outcomes for the military that result from chemical warfare and chemical terrorism....Loe edasi...
Before and during World War II, the Japanese army conducted horrifying scientific experiments upon live human beings, but were granted immunity from the US Armys war crimes investigation in return for the results of their experiments. This title de...Loe edasi...
