One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51663-9 (ISBN)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them).
Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment - including the issue of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination.
The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XI, 408 p. 43 illus., 11 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | 1925 Geneva Protocol • Anti-plant Chemical Warfare • Chemical Weapons During World War I • Chemical Weapons During World War II • Chemical Weapons in the Middle East • Chemistry • Dual-use Problem • Ethics and moral philosophy • Ethics of Chemical Warfare • Fritz Haber • Historiography • History • History of Chemistry • History of Military • History of Science • International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Confl • Lethal Unitary Chemical Agents and Munitions • Military and Defence Studies • military history • Military-Industrial Complex • open access • philosophy of science • Public international law: humanitarian law • research ethics • Security and fire alarm systems • Security Science and Technology • Warfare and defence • Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-51663-9 / 3319516639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-51663-9 / 9783319516639 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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