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.
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"...the author has managed to pack an amazing amount of information into a slim volume and present it in a very readable style: concise yet thorough, factual but also entertaining, with frequent flashes of dry humour." Nature
"...a salutary read, made all the more powerful by the author's intimate understanding of what these chemicals do to people....Banning Chemical Weapons will help enlighten those who make the decisions and, it is to be hoped, to persuade them that possession of chemical weapons is not in a country's best interests." Times Higher Education Supplement
"Well written and easy to read, Crone's book pulls the reader into the science behind the decisions made about chemical weapons." Military Intelligence
"...a salutary read, made all the more powerful by the author's intimate understanding of what these chemicals do to people....Banning Chemical Weapons will help enlighten those who make the decisions and, it is to be hoped, to persuade them that possession of chemical weapons is not in a country's best interests." Times Higher Education Supplement
"Well written and easy to read, Crone's book pulls the reader into the science behind the decisions made about chemical weapons." Military Intelligence
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The aim of this volume is to provide technical information to people interested in the broader aspects of disarmament, by showing how it must be used in negotiations to achieve a worldwide and enforceable ban on chemical weapons.
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The problem of chemical warfare has not been one of the major popular concerns of the late twentieth century, yet it has aspects that relate to, or impinge on, matters that have occupied public debate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chemical disarmament, sulphur mustard, tear gases, chemical war, nerve agents, warfare agents, aircraft bombs, collective protection Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Chemical Weapons Convention, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Materials Research Laboratory, Yellow Rain, Cambridge University Press, United Nations, Agent Orange, New Chemical Age, New York New!
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The problem of chemical warfare has not been one of the major popular concerns of the late twentieth century, yet it has aspects that relate to, or impinge on, matters that have occupied public debate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chemical disarmament, sulphur mustard, tear gases, chemical war, nerve agents, warfare agents, aircraft bombs, collective protection Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Chemical Weapons Convention, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Materials Research Laboratory, Yellow Rain, Cambridge University Press, United Nations, Agent Orange, New Chemical Age, New York New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age by Hugh D. Crone on 4 pages
- CHEMICAL WARFARE by Edward M. Spiers on page 29, and Back Matter
- The Game of Disarmament by Alva Myrdal on page 5
- Most Secret War (Wordsworth Military Library) by R. V. Jones on page 11
- Introduction to Industrial Chemistry by C.A. Heaton on page 88
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- Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life by Monica J. Casper in Back Matter
- Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life by Monica J. Casper in Back Matter
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