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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a novel or a fiction, but chilling, anyway!
This book offers the reader a wide perspective about chemical weapons and how they have been used in the past. As a historic reference, it is invaluable, and as a work that helps the reader imagine what could happen in the future, this is a must. Every person involved or worried about mass destructions weapons, must read and treasure this book.
Published on April 3, 2000 by Benjamín Ruiz Loyola
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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The Richard M. Price who wrote "The Chemical Weapons Taboo" is not the same Richard M. Price who has been in chemical and biological and radiological defense since 1983. This is just a coincidence of names.
Published 9 months ago by Barbara B. Price
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a novel or a fiction, but chilling, anyway!,
This review is from: The Chemical Weapons Taboo (Hardcover)
This book offers the reader a wide perspective about chemical weapons and how they have been used in the past. As a historic reference, it is invaluable, and as a work that helps the reader imagine what could happen in the future, this is a must. Every person involved or worried about mass destructions weapons, must read and treasure this book.
2.0 out of 5 stars
No association with the ASA Newsletter,
This review is from: The Chemical Weapons Taboo (Hardcover)
The Richard M. Price who wrote "The Chemical Weapons Taboo" is not the same Richard M. Price who has been in chemical and biological and radiological defense since 1983. This is just a coincidence of names.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended reading by nervegas.com,
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This review is from: The Chemical Weapons Taboo (Hardcover)
Richard Price writes a professional treatise on the perception of Chemical Weapons from WWI to current day. It is a profound work, and goes into refreshing details without the slightest redundancy with other works. The Chemical Weapons Taboo can be thought of as an original scholarly work.He clarifies many current day perceptions on Chemical Weapons by analyzing treaties and political decisions. Rather than rely on perfunctory assumptions of those treaties, he analyzes the committee notes and conduct of those treaties to show the conflict of ideas within their own context. Classically he addresses the taboo's of poisons, weapons of the weak, and other themes, showing the inconsistencies in a norm, and how they faulter in expalining the Chemical Weapons Taboo. Readers not familiar with the scholarly styles of contemporary writings in philosophy will find this a difficult book to digest. The vocabulary is not scientific/technical, but percise and demanding. Nonetheless, it is insightful on the processes of international law, conduct of states, and the historical era's that have influenced the current day "taboo." An intensely rewarding study (i.e., six-stars). By showing how the "taboo" was arrived at in Western societies, it is apparent that it is not a universally held notion. The author concludes that weapons are "political artifacts," not merely the inevitable consiquence of technology. A notion that many in the military-industial complex can concur with. |
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The Chemical Weapons Taboo by Richard M. Price (Hardcover - May 1997)
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