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1 online resource (XI, 408 pages 43 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color.) : online resource |
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Open Access e-Books.
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Introduction / Jürgen Renn -- Research on and Deployment of Chemical Weapons in World War I. The Scientist as Expert: Fritz Haber and German Chemical Warfare During the First World War and Beyond / Margit Szöllösi-Janze -- From Berlin-Dahlem to the Fronts of World War I: The Role of Fritz Haber and His Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in German Chemical Warfare / Bretislav Friedrich, Jeremiah James -- Clara Immerwahr: A Life in the Shadow of Fritz Haber / Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann -- France's Political and Military Reaction in the Aftermath of the First German Chemical Offensive in April 1915: The Road to Retaliation in Kind / Olivier Lepick -- Preparing for Poison Warfare: The Ethics and Politics of Britain's Chemical Weapons Program, 1915-1945 / Ulf Schmidt -- Challenging the Laws of War by Technology, Blazing Nationalism and Militarism: Debating Chemical Warfare Before and After Ypres, 1899-1925 / Miloš Vec -- Military-Industrial Interactions in the Development of Chemical Warfare, 1914-1918: Comparing National Cases Within the Technological System of the Great War / Jeffrey Allan Johnson -- Contexts and Consequences of Chemical Weapons. The Gas War, 1915-1918: If not a War Winner, Hardly a Failure / Edward M. Spiers -- "Gas, Gas, Gaas!" The Poison Gas War in the Literature and Visual Arts of Interwar Europe / Doris Kaufmann -- The Genie and the Bottle: Reflections on the Fate of the Geneva Protocol in the United States, 1918-1928 / Roy MacLeod -- The Soldier's Body in Gas Warfare: Trauma, Illness, Rentennot, 1915-1933 / Wolfgang U. Eckart -- Chemical Weapons Research on Soldiers and Concentration Camp Inmates in Nazi Germany / Florian Schmaltz -- No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II / Walter E. Grunden -- The 1925 Geneva Protocol: China's CBW Charges Against Japan at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal / Jeanne Guillemin -- Dual Use, Storage and Disposal of Chemical Weapons Today. The Reconstruction of Production and Storage Sites for Chemical Warfare Agents and Weapons from Both World Wars in the Context of Assessing Former Munitions Sites / Johannes Preuss -- From Charles and Francis Darwin to Richard Nixon: The Origin and Termination of Anti-plant Chemical Warfare in Vietnam / Matthew Meselson -- The Indelible Smell of Apples: Poison Gas Survivors in Halabja, Kurdistan-Iraq, and Their Struggle for Recognition / Karin Mlodoch -- The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria: Implications and Consequences / Ralf Trapp -- Commemoration Ceremony. A Century of Chemical Warfare: Building a World Free of Chemical Weapons / Paul F. Walker -- Statement by HE Ghislain D'hoop, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium / Ghislain D'hoop -- Fritz Haber and His Institute / Gerhard Ertl. |
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment -- including the issue of dual use -- as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015. |
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SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
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History.
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Military history.
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Politics and war.
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Chemistry -- History.
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Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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System safety.
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Humanitarian law.
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Chemistry. (OCoLC)fst00853344
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History. (OCoLC)fst00958235
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Humanitarian law. (OCoLC)fst00963577
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Military history. (OCoLC)fst01021222
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Politics and war. (OCoLC)fst01069964
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Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01095225
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System safety. (OCoLC)fst01141421
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Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Friedrich, Bretislav, editor.
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Hoffmann, Dieter, editor.
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Renn, Jürgen, editor.
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Schmaltz, Florian, editor.
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Wolf, Martin, editor.
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Printed edition: 9783319516639 |
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9783319516646 |
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3319516647 |
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9783319516639 |
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3319516639 |
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10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6 doi |
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