Chemical & Biological Weapons

From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilit...

This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterro...

This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons ...

Stalin's Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons programme, including its ke...

Inside the Hot Zone is an insider's account of one of the deadliest offices on earth: the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Disea...

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biologic...

Often described as the misuse of science, chemical and biological weapons have incurred widespread opposition over the years. Despite condemnation ...

One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches...

Focusing on three forms of biological threat - bioterrorism, biocrime and biohacking - the author examines the history of biowarfare and terrorism,...

Nerve agents are the worlds deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry ...

Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the prol...