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Cyber Warfare
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 39.95Cyber Warfare explores the battlefields, participants and the tools and techniques used during today's digital conflicts. The concepts discussed in this book will give those involved in information security at all levels a better idea of how cyber conflicts are carried out now, how they will change in the future and how to detect and defend against... more...
Weapons of Mass Destruction
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 185.00This reference covers the history, context, current issues, and key concepts surrounding biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. With over 500 entries arranged alphabetically, volume one covers biological and chemical weapons, while volume two focuses on nuclear weapons. more...
A Higher Form of Killing
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated edition includes a new Introduction and a new final... more...
A Higher Form Of Killing
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the black market that appeared in chemical and biological weapons, the acquisition of these... more...
A History of Chemical Warfare
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 40.00This book provides an analysis of the development and deployment of chemical weapons from 700BC to the present day. The First World War is examined in detail since it remains the most significant experience of the chemical threat, but the Second World War, and post-war conflicts are also evaluated. Additionally, protocols attempting to control the... more...
Britain and Biological Warfare
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 173.00From fear of sabotage on the London Underground to the first anthrax bomb and massive outdoor tests, Britain and Biological Warfare tells the largely untold history of biological weapons research and policy in the UK. Drawing on recently declassified documents, this book charts the secret history of germ warfare policy from the 1930s to the mid-1960s.... more...
Cathedrals of Science
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 21.99Prologue. 1. The Ionists- Arrhenius and Nernst. 2. Physical Chemistry in America- Lewis and Langmuir. 3. The Third Law and Nitrogen-Haber and Nernst. 4. Chemists at War-Haber, Nernst, Langmuir, and Lewis. 5. The Lewis-Langmuir Theoru-Lewis, Langmuir, and Harkins. 6. Science and the Nazis-Nernst and Haber. 7. Nobel prizes-Lweis and Langmuir. 8. Heavy... more...
Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99Identifies research directions in basic and applied science that may foster transformational breakthroughs in nanotechnology-based chemical and biological countermeasures. This work discusses organizational structure and management of chemical and biological defense-related research and nanotechnology-related research at the federal level. more...
In Harm's Way
Pan Macmillan Australia 2008; US$ 23.73In late 2006 Brian Corrigan led an SAS team into Lebanon to retrieve the two small children of Melissa Hawach. While the children, Cedar, 3, and Hannah, 5, were successfully reunited with their mother, Brian and another member of his team were detained at the airport and thrown into a Lebanese prison for the next three months. In Harm's Way ... more...
A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Reaktion Books 2010; US$ 35.00In Chemical and Biological Weapons, Edward M. Spiers provides a thorough and even-handed examination of the weapons themselves?the various types and effects?and their evolution from World War I to the present. more...









