Chemical Warfare Agents
Timothy Marrs

Chemical warfare agents are no longer restricted to the battlefield but are being increasingly deployed against civilian populations ‘ by terrorists and by governments, as either illegal weapons or legal riot control agents. This makes a detailed understanding of their effects on people and on the environment of ever greater importance to a wide audience. The first edition of this book, published in 1996, gathered together information on the medical effects of chemical warfare agents, including their pathology and mechanisms of action, and the way to handle resultant poisoning. The new edition has been expanded to almost three times the size of the first edition: it provides a detailed summary of chemical warfare agents, their physico-chemical properties, their dispersion and fate in the environment, their toxicology and management of their effects on humans, decontamination and protective equipment. New chapters cover the experience gained after the use of sarin to attack travellers on the Tokyo subway and how to deal with the outcome of the deployment of riot control agents such as CS gas.

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Inne
ISBN: 978-0-470-01359-5
Liczba stron: 0