Chemical weapons have been a part of warfare in most societies for centuries.[1] However, their usage has been extremely controversial since the 20th century.[2]
Chemical weapons have been a part ofwarfare in most societies for centuries. However, their usage has been extremely controversial since the 20th century...
Chemicalwarfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties ofchemical substances as weapons. This type ofwarfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological...
All may be used in warfare and are known by the military acronym NBC (for nuclear, biological, and chemicalwarfare). Weapons of mass destruction are...
most extensive chemical program during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), when he waged chemicalwarfare against his foe. He also used chemicals in 1988 in the...
The ChemicalWarfare Service was established on 28 June 1918, combining activities that until then had been dispersed among five separate agencies of the...
gas. These chemical weapons caused medical problems. This chemicalwarfare was a major component of the first global war and first total war of the 20th...
A chemical weapon agent (CWA), or chemicalwarfare agent, is a chemical substance whose toxic properties are meant to kill, injure or incapacitate human...
conventional weapons, not chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. The general purpose of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the...
Herbicidal warfare is the use of substances primarily designed to destroy the plant-based ecosystem of an area. Although herbicidal warfare use chemical substances...
Biological warfare is distinct from warfare involving other types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including nuclear warfare, chemicalwarfare, and radiological...
chemical, radiological, or nuclear warfare. The first use of the term "weapon of mass destruction" on record is by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which banned chemicalwarfare, among other things, but the U.S. never joined the article which prohibited chemical weapons....
carriers: a graphic historyof carrier aviation and its influence on world events (1969). Kim Coleman, A historyofchemicalwarfare (Palgrave Macmillan...
Industrial warfare is a period in the historyofwarfare ranging roughly from the early 19th century and the start of the Industrial Revolution to the...
University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-19-925296-3, Chapter 5 "The secret historyofchemicalwarfare against Moroccans" (Google Books [2] retrieved on October 14...
Psychochemical warfare — or "drug weapons" — involves the use of psychopharmacological agents (mind-altering drugs or chemicals) with the intention of incapacitating...
and a half years of operation. Some incidents cited in A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret HistoryofChemical and Biological Warfare are as follows:...
The Day of Remembrance for All Victims ofChemicalWarfare is an annual event held November 30 as a "tribute to the victims ofchemicalwarfare, as well...
lattice energy of an ionic solid. Haber, a known German nationalist, is also considered the "father ofchemicalwarfare" for his years of pioneering work...
Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemicalwarfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal...
Radiological warfare is any form ofwarfare involving deliberate radiation poisoning or contamination of an area with radiological sources. Radiological...
Laboratory HistoryofChemicalWarfare Agents. Lulu. pp. 79 et seq. ISBN 978-1-4116-9432-3. Croddy, Eric (2002). Chemical and biological warfare: a comprehensive...
general agreement that chemical weapons do "not accord with the feelings and principles of civilized warfare." The first chemical arms control agreement...
ChemicalWarfare Brigade is a rock opera created by Marc Brownstein of the trance fusion band Disco Biscuits. It was written during Brownstein's dismissal...
form of specific human-modified organisms. Chemicalwarfare is warfare (associated military operations) using the toxic properties ofchemical substances...
US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemicalwarfare capabilities, and...
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