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Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
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Author : James S. Ketchum
language : en
Publisher: Chembooks
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten written by James S. Ketchum and has been published by Chembooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Chemical warfare categories.
Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
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Author : James S. Ketchum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten written by James S. Ketchum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Chemical warfare categories.
Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
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Author : James S Ketchum M D
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-10
Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten written by James S Ketchum M D and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with Chemical warfare categories.
Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s. It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents. The actual historical record, however, has until now remained disturbingly incomplete. What chemicals was the Army studying? Why was the program never fully documented in books available to the public? Who planned and carried out the tests, and what was their purpose? How, and by whom, were the volunteers recruited? How adequately were they instructed before giving their informed consent? What long range effects, if any, have been found in follow-up studies? Written by the physician who played a pivotal role in psychoactive drug testing of hundreds of volunteers, the story breaks an official silence that has lasted almost fifty years. Dr. James Ketchum may be the only scientist still equal to the task. His book goes a long way toward revealing the contents of once classified documents that still reside in restricted archives. The author spent most of a decade testing over a dozen potential incapacitating agents including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives. His 380-page narrative, loaded with both old and recent photographs, derives from technical reports, memoranda, films, notes and memories. Written primarily for the general reader, but supplemented by a voluminous appendix of graphs and tables for the technically inclined, Dr. Ketchum's book combines a subjective diary with an objective report of the external events that shaped and eventually terminated the program. Informal and autobiographical in style, it includes numerous amusing anecdotes and personality portraits that make it simultaneously intriguing and informative.
Bridge Not Attacked A Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War Ii
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Author : Harold Johnston
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2004-01-02
Bridge Not Attacked A Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War Ii written by Harold Johnston and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-02 with Science categories.
This book gives an almost forgotten history concerning civilian university scientists, who carried out research on defense against poison gases in some unusual places during World War II. Most of these were graduate students, working under the direction of professors at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California (Berkeley). The first job on these projects was to make major improvements on gas masks. Later, most activities were done outdoors to assess the effects of terrain and meteorological conditions on the travel and dissipation of toxic gas clouds. Action took place in California, Florida, and the jungles of Panama.On these two parallel projects, one young participant was a big, healthy, athletic extrovert, who was deeply trained in the physical sciences, and by age twenty-nine (in 1943) was world famous in physics and in biology. Another was opposite in many ways: a skinny sickly loner, who was minimally schooled in science and mathematics. From the ten principal people working on these two projects, one was killed by accident while experimenting with a poison gas in the laboratory; another was proud of how he had defeated the draft system in an unusual way.
Historical Contributions To The Human Toxicology Of Atropine
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Author : Ephraim Goodman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Historical Contributions To The Human Toxicology Of Atropine written by Ephraim Goodman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This monograph reviews selected aspects of the clinical syndrome produced by atropine intoxication, with particular reference to behavioral disturbances manifested therein. A historical summary of the military applications of the behavioral toxicology of atropine is included.
Secret History Of Chemical Warfare
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Author : N. J. McCamley
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2007-03-26
Secret History Of Chemical Warfare written by N. J. McCamley and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-26 with History categories.
This book offers a full examination and description of all the toxic chemical and microbiological agents, either tested, manufactured or used since 1914. It identifies the major research, testing and manufacturing plants worldwide with special emphasis on the UK and North America. Among the British sites are Porton Down (Wiltshire), Sutton Oak (Lancashire), Nancekuke (North Cornwall) and the ICI-operated plants at Rhydymwn (North Wales) and St Helens and elsewhere in Lancashire.It details all verifiable uses of CBW since 1914 and examines the rationale behind such operations. Also studied is the arms race for CBW between competing powers. The author uncovers the scientific arrogance and political ignorance that has led to a greatly exaggerated perception of the potency of CBW, which he maintains is still the case today.Finally McCamley reveals the scandalous history of inadequate and dangerous storage and disposal practices.
Secret Science
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Author : Ulf Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Secret Science written by Ulf Schmidt and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Charting the ethical trajectory and culture of military science from its development in 1915 in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in WW1 to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these weapons, Secret Science offers a comprehensive history of chemical and biological weapons research by former Allied powers.
Breeding Bio Insecurity
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Author : Lynn C. Klotz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
Breeding Bio Insecurity written by Lynn C. Klotz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In the years since the 9/11 attacks—and the subsequent lethal anthrax letters—the United States has spent billions of dollars on measures to defend the population against the threat of biological weapons. But as Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester argue forcefully in Breeding Bio Insecurity, all that money and effort hasn’t made us any safer—in fact, it has made us more vulnerable. Breeding Bio Insecurity reveals the mistakes made to this point and lays out the necessary steps to set us on the path toward true biosecurity. The fundamental problem with the current approach, according to the authors, is the danger caused by the sheer size and secrecy of our biodefense effort. Thousands of scientists spread throughout hundreds of locations are now working with lethal bioweapons agents—but their inability to make their work public causes suspicion among our enemies and allies alike, even as the enormous number of laboratories greatly multiplies the inherent risk of deadly accidents or theft. Meanwhile, vital public health needs go unmet because of this new biodefense focus. True biosecurity, the authors argue, will require a multipronged effort based in an understanding of the complexity of the issue, guided by scientific ethics, and watched over by a vigilant citizenry attentive to the difference between fear mongering and true analysis of risk. An impassioned warning that never loses sight of political and scientific reality, Breeding Bio Insecurity is a crucial first step toward meeting the evolving threats of the twenty-first century.
The Great Secret The Classified World War Ii Disaster That Launched The War On Cancer
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Author : Jennet Conant
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-09-08
The Great Secret The Classified World War Ii Disaster That Launched The War On Cancer written by Jennet Conant and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with History categories.
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. When one young sailor after another began suddenly dying of mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate. He quickly diagnosed mustard gas exposure, but was overruled by British officials determined to cover up the presence of poison gas in the devastating naval disaster, which the press dubbed "little Pearl Harbor." Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower acted in concert to suppress the truth, insisting the censorship was necessitated by military security. Alexander defied British port officials and heroically persevered in his investigation. His final report on the Bari casualties was immediately classified, but not before his breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads—a pioneering physician and research scientist as brilliant as he was arrogant and self-destructive—who recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and ushered in a new era of cancer research led by the Sloan Kettering Institute. Meanwhile, the Bari incident remained cloaked in military secrecy, resulting in lost records, misinformation, and considerable confusion about how a deadly chemical weapon came to be tamed for medical use. Deeply researched and beautifully written, The Great Secret is the remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.
Army Chemical Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Army Chemical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Chemical warfare categories.