San Antonio College Library

Contains twenty-three essays in which the authors examine aspects of chemical and biological warfare, discussing its history and background, the Persian Gulf and Iraq, the Chemical Weapons Convention, terrorism in the United States and abroad, and the level of preparedness in the U.S.

Weapons of mass destruction are designed to kill large numbers of people indiscriminately. They are usually categorized as nuclear, biological, or chemical. High-tech solutions are being developed to counter the devastating effects of these deadly weapons. "Dirty bombs" combine conventional explosives with radioactive materials. Using the latest computer technology at the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, a mock "dirty bomb" attack scenario...

This program is about Iran's volunteer soldiers who were exposed to chemical bombs during the Iran-Iraq War. The film follows veteran Ahmad Salimi, who is now legally blind and has scars throughout his body due to burns from exposure to chemical weapons over 20 years ago. His wife, who volunteered to marry a wounded veteran, supports Ahmad as he struggles to stay alive and fight for peace. The Skin That Burns explores questions surrounding the controversial...

In War of Nerves, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, writes about chemical warfare from World War I to the present. --from publisher description.

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first...

Fritz Haber--a Nobel laureate in chemistry, a friend of Albert Einstein, a German Jew and World War I hero--may be the most important scientist you have never heard of. The Haber-Bosch process, which he invented at the turn of the twentieth century, revolutionized agriculture by converting nitrogen to fertilizer in quantities massive enough to feed the world. The invention has become an essential pillar for life on earth; some two billion people on...

"Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and...

"The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets. One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of "less-lethal" police force. In 2011, the year...