Challenge of Chemical Weapons

1. Front Matter

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2. Chemical Warfare through World War I: Setting Modern Attitudes toward Chemical Warfare

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   Pages 1-13

3. The Inter-War Years

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   Pages 14-26

4. Testing ‘Strategic Deterrence’: Chemical Weapons and World War II

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   Pages 27-68

5. Use and Non-Use of Chemical Weapons: The Post-World War II Years

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   Pages 69-87

6. Negotiations to Control Chemical and Biological Warfare: The Post-World War II Years

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   Pages 88-128

7. Changes in Chemical/Biological Weapons Technology and Public Opinion since World War II

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   Pages 129-142

8. NATO’s Chemical Warfare Problem Today

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   Pages 143-198

9. Third World National and Insurgent Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons

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   Pages 199-211

10. Looking to the Future

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11. The Challenge of Chemical Weapons

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12. Back Matter

    Pages 237-273

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This book traces through a 100+ year history of evolving chemical weapons technology, public attitudes toward these weapons, attempts to negotiate controls on them, and important instances in which nations chose to use or forego the use of chemical weapons.

• Arms Control
• Proliferation
• public opinion
• technology
• Third World
• war
• weapons
• World War I
• World War II

• Strategy, Forces and Resources Division, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, USA

  Victor A. Utgoff

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