Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's …
Mar 1, 2021 · From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents' gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts. They've been deployed in the Iran-Iraq War, by terrorists in Japan, in the Syrian Civil War, and by assassins in Malaysia and Salisbury--always with bitter consequences.
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Nerve agent - Wikipedia
Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs.
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Germany to Putin's Russia
Apr 7, 2022 · The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents’ gradual spread across the world, …
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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Feb 13, 2007 · 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 ...
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to
Jul 1, 2020 · From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents’ gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts. They’ve been deployed in the Iran–Iraq War, by terrorists in Japan, in the Syrian Civil War, and by assassins in Malaysia and Salisbury—always with bitter consequences.
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's …
Apr 7, 2022 · From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents’ gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts. They’ve been deployed in the Iran–Iraq War, by terrorists in Japan, in the Syrian Civil War, and by assassins in Malaysia and Salisbury―always with bitter consequences.
- Reviews: 100
- Author: Dan Kaszeta
Toxic : A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to ... - Google Books
Feb 15, 2021 · The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents'...
Toxic | Hurst Publishers
From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents’ gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts.
Toxic - A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to …
The book begins in Depression-era Germany, where Dr Gerhard Schrader discovered the first nerve agent while researching organophosphate compounds. His work was based on adding an already poisonous substance (cyanide) to an organophosphate compound to create a highly effective pesticide.
Nerve Agents in Postwar Britain: Deterrence, Publicity and …
This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britain’s submission of a draft Chemical Weapons Convention.
- Author: William King
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