As chief executive of News International, Rupert Murdoch controls a global media empire which boasts some of the major players in newspapers, television, publishing and the movie business. In the English-speaking world, and increasingly in untapped but potentially lucrative markets such as China, he wields an influence as political kingmaker second to none.
Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel
by On Review and Evaluation of Committee
Francisella Tularensis (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
This is the first book on tularemia. With the biodefense initiative, there has been a major boost by the NIH to fund studies on bioterrorism agents, including Francisella, which is classified as a A bioterrorism agent. With the major interest in biodefense and the major threats of bioterrorism, Francisella tularensis has become a major interest for microbiologists, cell biologists, immunologists, and infectious disease experts. The volume explores the mechanisms of pathogenesis, genetics and gen...
Herbicides and Defoliants in War
by The Editorial Staff and The Vietnam Courier
Chilcot Report
by Sir John Chilcot, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Roderic Lyne, Sir Martin Gilbert, and Baroness Usha Kumari Prashar
Historical Contributions to the Human Toxicology of Atropine
by Ephraim Goodman
Chemical Warfare and Chemical Terrorism
by American Psychological Association
These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might be spread about on the New York Subway and the most terrifying of all, three dirty bomb attacks thwarted in Russia. The reality of all these developments is that the environment in which we live today is being seriously threatened by the calculated use of weapons of mass destruction, and from a variety of dissident sources. Many rogue nations have at...
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines long-term consequences for future generations, laying bare the ongoing monu...
Greek and Roman Military Manuals (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including read...
Inside Britain's top-secret compound of Porton Down in Wiltshire and other chemical and biological research operations worldwide, experiments on humans and millions of animals are used to perfect weapons of mass destruction. The author has gained access to some of the world's best kept secrets, to expose the full horror of a deadly international industry. The sources include classified documents and first-hand accounts from personnel sworn under the Official Secrets Act. Other topics include: in...
Chemical and Biological Weapons (Science and Society)
by Daniel E Harmon
Gas (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century, #4)
by Ian V Hogg
Guidelines for Chemical Warfare Agents in Military Field Drinking Water
by Ian A Greaves