Author : Victor A. Utgoff
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
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Book Description
Traces through more than a century of evolving chemical weapons technology, public attitudes toward these weapons, attempts to negotiate controls on them and important instances in which nations chose to use or forego the use of them. Analyses the potential deterrent role of chemical weapons for NATO and the political-military roles that these weapons might play in the Third World. Projects four major challenges arising from chemical and biological weapons.