One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequ ences / edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jurgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf.

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Text Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017Edition: 1st ed. 2017Description: 1 online resource (XI, 408 pages 43 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color.)Content type:

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Summary: 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, B elgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed withi n a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amo unted 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 th e gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaise r Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berl in-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the mean s of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fri tz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, JÃ¼rgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) org anized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the i nfamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemi cal warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapo ns in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the cen tury hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment - including the issu e of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The v olume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfar e from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

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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, B elgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed withi n a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amo unted 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 th e gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaise r Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berl in-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the mean s of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fri tz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, JÃ¼rgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) org anized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the i nfamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemi cal warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapo ns in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the cen tury hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment - including the issu e of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The v olume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfar e from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequ ences / edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jurgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf.