In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading
expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal
history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic
chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the
battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long
debate over the military utility and morality of chemical warfare,
from the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915 to Hitler's
reluctance to use nerve agents (he believed, incorrectly, that the
U.S. could retaliate in kind) to Saddam Hussein's gassing of his
own people, and concludes with the emergent threat of chemical
terrorism. Moving beyond history to the twenty-first century, "War
of Nerves" makes clear that we are at a crossroads that could lead
either to the further spread of these weapons or to their ultimate
abolition.
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