The Chemical Weapons Taboo /

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Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the crossbow to nuclear bombs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Richard M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Armes chimiques > Histoire.
Armes chimiques > Aspect moral.
Chemical weapons > Moral and ethical aspects.
Chemical weapons.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International).
Military History.
Chemical weapons > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Price, Richard M.
  • 1. Weapons, Morality, And War
  • 2. The Origins Of The Chemical Weapons Taboo
  • 3. World War I
  • 4. The Interwar Period
  • 5. Colonizing Chemical Warfare
  • 6. A Weapon Of The Weak
  • 7. On Technology And Morality
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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