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Weapons of Mass Destruction

 

Chemical Warfare

Chemical Warfare

Capt. S.J.M. Auld, 4th (Terr.) B attalion Royal Berks Regt.

This lecture was delivered by a former lieutenant colonel of the British wartime Gas Service, who, as the British gas liaison officer in the United States was an important factor in the inception of the measures taken during the World War to place the American Army on a proper basis of gas preparedness, training and organization.

Published: 11 February 1922

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Bacterial Warfare

Bacterial Warfare

Major Leon A. Fox, Medical Corps.

The entries from foreign-language magazines, in section 2, include digests of the articles. This Section is designed to furnish translations or abstracts of the more important articles. Therefore, this section is an extension of Seaction 2.

Published: March 1933

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Chemical Warfare

Chemical Warfare

Captain Nelson J. Anderson, Chemical Warfare Service

Regardless of treaties that exist between the belligerents of the world, no nation dares assume the attitude that preparation for chemical warfare can be neglected.

Published: July 1942

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Bacteriological Warfare

Bacteriological Warfare

Translated and digested by the Military Review from an article by major Ernst Wiesmann in "Allegemeine Schweizerische Militarzeitschrift" (Switzerland) August 1949

When and if bacteria are employed as combat means in total warfare, man and his domestic animals or plants will suffer a fatal blow.

Published: April 1950

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Squeeze em an blast em

Squeeze 'em an' Blast' em

Lieutenant Colonel George B. Pickett, JR., Armor Assistant G3, Headquarters, Fourth Army

The once unusual, but now familiar, mushroom cloud arising from Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 was really a challenge to the Officer Corps of the United States Army. Had that cloud been able to speak it no doubt would have remarked, “Gentlemen of the Army, awake. A new era for your breed is at hand calling for completely new doctrine, tactics, techniques, and not a mere rehash of the old thinking.”

Published: September 1955

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Biological Warfare Model 1967

Biological Warfare Model 1967

Carl A. Larson

Until last year no great strategic surprise seemed attainable in warfare by the sole resort to biological operations. The defense planner could rely on a number of distinct advantages, including one of knowing that his opponent was probably fettered by public opinion. While traits of this pattern remain, an entirely new situation is rapidly developing. It threatens to burden military planning with a new type of decision, acrid and ponderous.

Published: May 1966

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Chemical Weapons in the Iran/Iraq War

Chemical Weapons in the Iran/Iraq War

Lee Waters

As our force faces the menace of Iraqi chemical weapons in Operation Desert Shield, the author calls our attention to recent reports of effective use of chemical agents in the Iran-Iraq War. Writing before Iraq invaded Kuwait and US forces were deployed to Saudi Arabia, he points out a lack in our own Anny of collective and force capability to fight in a chemical environment. He sees this as a weakness that must be addressed as the number of nations with chemical weapons and delivery systems appears to be proliferating.

Published: October 1990

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Ultramicro, Nonlethal, and Reversible: Looking Ahead to Military Biotechnology

Ultramicro, Nonlethal, and Reversible: Looking Ahead to Military Biotechnology

Guo Ji-wei and Xue-sen Yang

After two world wars, the invention of nuclear weapons, and the Cold War, our world is undergoing a military revolution charac¬terized by electronics, computers, communications, and microinformation technology. In recent wars, this progress has produced fewer casualties (both civilian and military), and the desire to cause fewer casualties has become an important factor restrict¬ing military operations.

Published: July-August 2005

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The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism Threat from the Islamic State

The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism Threat from the Islamic State

Carole N. House

The demonstrated ruthlessness and extensive resources of the Islamic State warrant an examination of the viability and probability of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack by that nonstate actor.

Published: September-October 2016

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