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1 online resource (391 pages) |
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Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I WORLD WAR I I ; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE HERITAGE OF WAR; A. Record of Use; B. Formation of Restraints; Propaganda and the American Public; The Administration Responds; C. Military Perspectives; Tactical Characteristics; Science and Technology; A Question of Honor; D. Fears for the Future-Escalation; PART II THE INTERWAR YEARS INTRODUCTION; 2. THE AFTERMATH OF WAR; Congressional Intervention-the National Defense Act of 1920; War Department Hesitation |
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Legacy of the Washington Arms ConferenceA. Drafting the Peace; B. American Industry and Propaganda; C. The Washington Arms Conference; D. Institutionalization Within the Military; 3. THE EVOLUTION OF POLICY, 1922-1939; A. External Stimulants; Geneva Gas Protocol; World Disarmament Conference; B. Internal Review; Military Policy-A New Realism; National Policy-Continuing Opposition; Military Programs-Continuing Unreadiness; 4. RESTRAINTSAT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR; A. Military Unpreparedness; Army-Nonassimilation; Navy-Inattention; Air Corps-Focus on Survival; B. The Problem of Civil Defense |
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C. Unrealistic Threat PerceptionD. Public Opposition; E.A Tenuous Legal Restraint; PART III THE TEST OF WORLD WAR II; INTRODUCTION; 5. CONFIRMATION OF RESTRAINTS 1939-1942; A. Hesitation 1939-1941; B. Reevaluation after Pearl Harbor; C. British Chemical Warfare Policy; Declaratory Policy; Restraints on Employment; Public Attitudes; Threat Evaluation; National Elite and Coalition War; Military Readiness; The Test of Sea Lion; D. German Chemical Warfare Policy; Declaratory Policy; Restraints on Employment Threat Evaluation; Elite Attitudes-Hitler's Rationality; Military Readiness |
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E. Japanese Chemical Warfare PolicyDeclaratory Policy; Restraints on Employment Threat Evaluation; Military Readiness; 6. THE CRUCIAL TEST-MID-1945; A. The Success of Minimum Deterrence; B. The New Environment in 1945; C. Restraints on Employment; JCS Procrastination; Vulnerability of Allies; Institutional and Personal Attitudes; D. Ineffective Restraints; Legal; Public Opinion; 7. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Glossary of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"In the aftermath of 9/11, the potential terror of weapons of mass destruction--from nuclear, biological, and chemical to dirty bombs--preoccupies national security experts. In Chemical Warfare, Frederic J. Brown, presents a cogent, innovative framework for understanding the historical forces that have restrained the use of WMD and how they continue to have relevance today. Analyzing both world wars, he argues that the restraints on use were complex and often unpredictable and ranged from the political to the technological. The author offers a detailed examination of American chemical warfare policy as it was shaped by industry and public sentiment, as well as national and military leaders. The organization of the book into three parts reflects the importance of battlefield experiences during the First World War and of international political restraints as they evolved during the interwar years and culminated in ""no first use"" policies by major powers in World War II. Part I examines the use of chemical weapons in World War I as it influenced subsequent national policy decisions. Part II focuses on the evolution of political, military, economic, and psychological restraints from 1919 to 1939. Part III discusses World War II during two critical periods: 1939 to early 1942, when the environment of the war was being established largely without American influence; and during 1945, when the United States faced no credible threat of retaliation to deter its strategic and battlefield use of chemical weapons. Written at the height of controversy about the U.S. use of chemicals in Vietnam, Chemical Warfare offers a valuable historical perspective, as relevant now in its analysis of chemical and also nuclear policy as it was when first published."--Provided by publisher |
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Chemical warfare.
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Chemical arms control.
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Chemical Warfare
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Chemical arms control
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Chemical warfare
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351529211 |
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1351529218 |
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