In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's
attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create
pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extreme
trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically
fortify and extend the health and lethal power of soldiers from the
Cold War era into the twenty-first century, from early adoptions of
mandatory immunizations to bio-protective gear, to the development
and spread of new performance enhancing drugs during the global War
on Terrorism. In his examination of government efforts to alter
soldiers' bodies through new technologies, Bickford invites us to
contemplate what constitutes heroism when armor becomes built in,
wired in, and even edited into the molecular being of an American
soldier. Lurking in the background and dark recesses of all US
military enhancement research, Bickford demonstrates, is the desire
to preserve US military and imperial power.
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