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Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints
ISBN: 9781412804950 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the aftermath of 9/11, the potential terror of weapons of mass destruction- from nuclear, biological, and chemical to dirty bombs-preoccupies national security experts. In Chemical Warfare, Frederic J. Brown, presents a cogent, innovative framework for understanding the historical forces that have restrained the use of WMD and how they continue to have relevance today. Analyzing both world wars, he argues that the restraints on use were complex and often unpredictable and ranged from the political to the technological.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the potential terror of weapons of mass destruction- from nuclear, biological, and chemical to dirty bombs-preoccupies natio...
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228,74 zł |
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Bridge Not Attacked, A: Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War II
ISBN: 9789812381521 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The purpose of this book is to present an almost forgotten history of secret war research in universities. The focus is on the narrow subject of chemical warfare research and on a small number of individuals, but with in-depth study of these individuals and what they did. Mostly graduate students and young instructors, they were working under the direction of professors at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of...
This book tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The p...
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399,16 zł |
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Bridge Not Attacked, A: Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War II
ISBN: 9789812381538 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The purpose of this book is to present an almost forgotten history of secret war research in universities. The focus is on the narrow subject of chemical warfare research and on a small number of individuals, but with in-depth study of these individuals and what they did. Mostly graduate students and young instructors, they were working under the direction of professors at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of...
This book tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The p...
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160,64 zł |
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A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare
ISBN: 9780853452232 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth analysis of nearly all chemical and biological weapons, their effects, and the politics surrounding their deployment. An in-depth analysis of nearly all chemical and biological weapons, their effects, and the politics surrounding their deployment. |
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140,81 zł |
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Chemical Warfare
ISBN: 9780333346594 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since its employment in the First World War, chemical warfare has always aroused controversy. Governments have responded by pursuing the policies of disarmament and deterrence in the hope of avoiding its recurrence. However, despite the signing of the Geneva Protocol in 1925 which banned the use of poison gas, chemical weapons have been used in subsequent conflicts and most recently in the Gulf War between Iraq and Iran. In this work the policies of disarmament and deterrence will be reassessed within a broad historical and strategic context. It will be argued that poison gas could still...
Ever since its employment in the First World War, chemical warfare has always aroused controversy. Governments have responded by pursuing the policies...
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605,23 zł |
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Lethal Mists: An Introduction to the Natural & Military Sciences of Chemical, Biological Warfare & Terrorism
ISBN: 9781560724599 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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340,69 zł |
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Banning Chemical Weapons: The Scientific Background
ISBN: 9780521416993 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Banning Chemical Weapons provides a readable and brief outline of chemical warfare; its origin and the offensive and defensive aspects. The aim of this volume is to give technical information to people interested in the wider aspects of disarmament, by showing how this technical material must be used in the negotiations to achieve a worldwide and enforceable ban on chemical weapons. While not a textbook, this volume provides accessible technical background to the issue of chemical disarmament.
Banning Chemical Weapons provides a readable and brief outline of chemical warfare; its origin and the offensive and defensive aspects. The aim of thi...
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421,34 zł |
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The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm
ISBN: 9780313361685 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new threat is stalking nations, as terrorist organizations and rogue states alike appear intent on acquiring and using the poor man's nuclear weapon: biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, and plague. Attacks against Americans during the past dozen years may be an indication of more worrisome events to come. U.S. military forces in Japan were attacked in April of 1990 with botulinum toxin by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Hundreds in Oregon were sickened with Salmonella after an attack in 1984. And small amounts of anthrax resulted in widespread panic and frequent evacuations across the... A new threat is stalking nations, as terrorist organizations and rogue states alike appear intent on acquiring and using the poor man's nuclear wea... |
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138,35 zł |
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Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies
ISBN: 9780792345916 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FRANCIS W. HOLM 7102 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Prague, Czech Republic, on 1-2 July 1996, to collect and study information on mobile alternative and supplemental demilitarization technologies and to report these fmdings. The mobile, or transportable, technologies identified for assessment at the workshop are alternatives to incineration technology for destruction of munitions, chemical warfare agent, and associated materials and debris. Although the discussion focused on the treatment of...
FRANCIS W. HOLM 7102 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in...
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605,23 zł |
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Terrorism, War, or Disease?: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons
ISBN: 9780804759779 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attention has been devoted to understanding how to improve policies and procedures to identify and attribute BW events. Terrorism, War, or Disease? is the first book to examine the complex political, military, legal, and scientific challenges involved in determining when BW have been used and who has used them. Through detailed analysis of the most significant and controversial allegations of BW use from the Second World War to the present,...
The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attent...
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153,72 zł |
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Terrorism, War, or Disease?: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons
ISBN: 9780804759762 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attention has been devoted to understanding how to improve policies and procedures to identify and attribute BW events. Terrorism, War, or Disease? is the first book to examine the complex political, military, legal, and scientific challenges involved in determining when BW have been used and who has used them. Through detailed analysis of the most significant and controversial allegations of BW use from the Second World War to the present,...
The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attent...
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647,42 zł |
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The Tug-of-War over Taiwan in the US
ISBN: 9783836476386 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,69 zł |
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State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program
ISBN: 9781432725662 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s, while U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating for the Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty was supposed to destroy chemical weapons of the world and ban new ones. The Moscow institute that developed chemical weapons at that same time was secretly developing newer and greatly more toxic ones known anecdotally as Novichok and new binaries. Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, a scientist there, was responsible for developing methods of detecting extremely minute...
State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s, while U.S.S.R. Presid...
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142,00 zł |
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State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program
ISBN: 9781432719234 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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199,65 zł |
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The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976
ISBN: 9780521296144 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1979, this book is a history of American nuclear weapons policy that tells how the United States learned to live with the bomb.
Originally published in 1979, this book is a history of American nuclear weapons policy that tells how the United States learned to live with the bomb...
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205,79 zł |
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U.S. Nuclear Stockpile: Maintenance & Replacement of Warheads
ISBN: 9781607414834 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an overview of the US nuclear stockpile and the issues relating to maintenance and replacement of warheads. This book discusses extending the service lives of warheads without nuclear testing; and developing, building, and deploying a new generati
Presents an overview of the US nuclear stockpile and the issues relating to maintenance and replacement of warheads. This book discusses extending the...
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635,32 zł |
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Biological and Toxin Weapons: Research, Development and Use from the Middle Ages to 1945
ISBN: 9780198295792 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary book analyzes the origins of biological warfare planning and preparation up to the end of World War II. In the period between the world wars, growing understanding of the propagation of disease lead to the fear that potential enemies might be developing biological weapons, with several countries ultimately developing major biological warfare programs during World War II. The relevance of these programs to contemporary concerns is addressed and sheds light on arguments for adoption of a verification protocol to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons...
This interdisciplinary book analyzes the origins of biological warfare planning and preparation up to the end of World War II. In the period between t...
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674,98 zł |
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Chemical and Biological Warfare Development: 1985
ISBN: 9780198291107 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fifth annual SIPRI review of developments in the field of chemical and biological warfare, this volume covers such topics as allegations of treaty violations during 1985; Western moves toward chemical warfare rearmament; the chemical warfare posture of the Soviet Union; proliferation of chemical weapons; and efforts made during the year to strengthen and extend the existing arms control regime.
The fifth annual SIPRI review of developments in the field of chemical and biological warfare, this volume covers such topics as allegations of treaty...
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444,40 zł |
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Verification of Dual-Use Chemicals Under the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Case of Thiodiglycol
ISBN: 9780198291565 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent events in the Middle East have made the study of the negotiations of the Chemical Weapons Convention a matter of urgency. The negotiations have addressed verification of compliance with those provisions of the Convention which relate to the production and non-production of relevant chemicals. In order to facilitate the work of the negotiators, the Pugwash movement and SIPRI gave a group of scientific and other experts on the negotiations the task of analyzing how the current Convention provisions should be applied to the specific chemical, thiodiglycol, a precursor to mustard gas. The...
Recent events in the Middle East have made the study of the negotiations of the Chemical Weapons Convention a matter of urgency. The negotiations have...
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686,51 zł |
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Super Terrorism: Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear
ISBN: 9781571052186 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book contains excerpts from authoritative testimony, speeches and reports of political leaders, members of Congress, and leading experts who lay out a roadmap for understanding the nation's growing concern and response to the threat of super terrorism. It highlights warnings on the domestic and international threat form reports of the Bremer Commission, Gilmore Commission, Hart-Rudman Commission, Baker-Cutler Report and the USS Cole Commission. The text features statements and assessments of Madeleine Albright, Ahmed Al-Fadl, Ken Alibek, Seth Carus, Bill Clinton, Anthony...
This timely book contains excerpts from authoritative testimony, speeches and reports of political leaders, members of Congress, and leading experts w...
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153,33 zł |
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