Chemical Warfare (eBook)

A Study in Restraints

Frederic Joseph Brown (Autor)

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2015
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7695-2 (ISBN)

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Why would a nation, in the midst of a vicious and unrestricted war, hesitate to employ a weapon guaranteed to inflict massive casualties on the enemy? Major Frederic Brown offers here the first critical analysis of this curious World War II phenomenon. He investigates the nature of restraints-political, military, economic, and psychological-operative in varying degrees between 1919 and 1945, when U.S. chemical warfare policy was being formed. Starting with the experiences of toxic agent use during World War I, Major Brown shows how various restraints to gas warfare developed during the inter-war years. He then discusses the World War II experience. In the conclusion Major Brown relates his findings to contemporary conflicts and offers important implications for the future of the cold war.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Allies of World War II • Armor-piercing shell • Arthur Balfour • Attack on Pearl Harbor • Axis powers • Balance of terror • Battle of France • Battle of Loos • Blitzkrieg • Blockade • Bormann • Butt Report • Casus belli • Chemical Corps • Chemical Industry • chemical warfare • chemical weapon • civil defense • civilian • Combatant • Council of National Defense • declaration of war • Demobilization • Demoralization (warfare) • Disarmament • distrust • Douglas MacArthur • European theatre of World War II • Geneva Protocol • Hideki Tojo • IG Farben • Incendiary device • Interdiction • International Committee of the Red Cross • Interwar Period • law of war • Lend-lease • Lewisite • Livens Projector • Luftwaffe • Manhattan Project • Melange (fictional drug) • military art • military history • Mobile Defense • Munich Agreement • Mutual Assured Destruction • National Defense Research Committee • national security • neurosis • Neville Chamberlain • Non-combatant • No Quarter • Nuclear warfare • Nuremberg Trials • occupation of japan • Office of Civilian Defense • Open Society • Operation Barbarossa • Operation Downfall • Operation Sea Lion • Paris Peace Conference, 1919 • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty • Peace treaty • Phoney War • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Presidential Statement • Prisoner of War • ratification • Reprisal • Return to normalcy • Sarin • Second Battle of the Marne • Second Battle of Ypres • strategic bombing • Superiority (short story) • superpower • surrender of japan • Tactical nuclear weapon • Tactical objective • Technical intelligence • Ten Year Rule • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich • The Sinking of the Lusitania • The War in the Air • Totalitarianism • Total War • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons • Undeclared War • United States Department of War • United States Strategic Bombing Survey • war • War Crime • War Department (United Kingdom) • warfare • War Production Board • weapon system • World War I • World War II • Wunderwaffe
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7695-8 / 1400876958
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7695-2 / 9781400876952