A Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
Part of the UNIDIR project on "confidence-building and arms control in the Middle East". Early considerations within the project lead to the conclusion that analyses of confidence-building, non-offensive defence and co-operative security would be difficult to undertake without also addressing the problems associated with weapons of mass destruction. The concept of a nuclear-weapon free zone in the Middle East has long since been supported byt he UN General Assembly. In this text, global arms con...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and North Korea (Library of Weapons of Mass Destruction)
by Tracie Egan
The discovery that Iraq had an offensive biological weapons programme prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and that the Soviet Union had continued its work on such weapons throughout the 1980s has provoked widespread public concern over these weapons of mass destruction. Official concern amongst Western states, for example, over the anthrax outbreak at Sverdlovsk, has been of long standing, and recent US statements have indicated that at least five and perhaps eight states have such weapons. It is also n...
Military Biology and Biological Warfare Agents
by U.S. Department of the Army
Fighting in Flanders (Souvenir Catalogue Series, 8 ISSN 2291-6385, #0)
by Melanie Morin-Pelletier
Face the horror of poison gas at Ypres and endure the hellish sea of mud at Passchendaele alongside courageous Canadian soldiers. From the opening movements of the First World War, most of Belgium was occupied by German forces. Fighting in Flanders explores how Canadians in Belgium had to adapt to the significant challenges - from the first use of poison gas in the Second Battle of Ypres to the hellish mud of Passchendaele.This souvenir catalogue highlights the famous poem In Flanders Fields by...
Occupied Coast: Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic Wall
by Aline Sax, Hannelore Vandebroek, and Jonas Raats
During the Second World War, the German occupiers built a coastal defence line along the Dutch, Belgian and French seaboards. The Atlantic Wall was designed to protect the Reich against an Allied invasion. Yet the coastal population suddenly found itself living in a Sperrgebiet of immense strategic importance, as a result of which the dunes and the beaches became no-go zones. Despite the countless restrictions, the rationing and curfews, blackouts, air raids, conscriptions and evacuations, the r...
A timely book that explains the next revolution in military weapons - directed-energy weapons - and how tomorrow's wars will be fought. In science fiction, futuristic soldiers are often shown wielding light emitting weapons - Flash Gordon used a ray gun, Captain Kirk carried a phaser, and Darth Vader brandished a light saber. But, today, the imagined future of science fiction is soon to be a reality. After more than two decades of research, the United States is on the verge of deploying a new ge...
A political and scientific expose written by the defector once responsible for Iraq's clandestine weapons programme. He claims that Iraq already has biological weapons and is capable of completing a nuclear weapon within months if international sanctions are lifted. In 1994, after 20 years in Iraq's energy and weapons programme, Hamza escaped to warn the CIA of Saddam's nuclear progress - only to be turned away at first. Western corporations and governments facilitated Iraq's nuclear programme b...
Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US milita...
Super Terrorism: Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear
by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig
This timely book contains excerpts from authoritative testimony, speeches and reports of political leaders, members of Congress, and leading experts who lay out a roadmap for understanding the nation's growing concern and response to the threat of super terrorism. It highlights warnings on the domestic and international threat form reports of the Bremer Commission, Gilmore Commission, Hart-Rudman Commission, Baker-Cutler Report and the USS Cole Commission. The text features statements and assess...
Chemical Weapons and Missile Proliferation
In this examination of the possible threat posed by the marriage of an age-old weapon, poison gas, with a nuclear-age delivery system, the ballistic missile, the authors assess the alleged proliferation of chemical weapons and missile technology worldwide, with particular emphasis on the Asia/Pacific region. They also describe the ongoing efforts to curb chemical and missile proliferation and to find lasting solutions to the problem. Detailed attention is given to the new chemical weapons conven...
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most terrifying moments came on 18 October, when President John F. Kennedy and his advisers discussed the prospect that, if US forces invaded Cuba to remove th...
"I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam, in order to defoliate close to 5 million acre...
'A further and devastating indictment not only of Tony Blair personally but of a whole apparatus of state and government, Cabinet, Parliament, armed forces, and, far from least, intelligence agencies. — GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 'It offers a long and painful account of an episode that may come to be seen as marking the moment when the UK fell off its global perch, trust in government collapsed and the country turned inward and began to disintegrate.' — PHILIPPE SANDS,...
"Dr. Vilensky raises important concerns regarding the threats posed by lewisite and other weapons of mass destruction. As he describes, non-proliferation programs are a vital component in the War on Terror." -Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator"Joel Vilensky's book is a detailed and immensely useful account of the development and history of one of the major chemical weapons.... We will always know how to make lewisite, the `Dew of Death,' but that does not mean that we should, or be compelle...
No Fire, No Thunder (Militarism, State & Society)
by Sean Murphy, Alastair Hay, and Steven Rose
Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures
by Lois M Joellenbeck, Jane Durch, and Leslie Z Benet