War of Nerves神经战争
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作者： Jonathan Tucker 著
出 版 社： 东至影音 (代销)
出版时间： 2007-2-1字数：版次：页数： 479印刷时间： 2007/02/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781400032334包装： 平装内容简介
According to arms control expert Tucker， chemical weapons—and efforts to ban them—are almost as old as war itself。 The ancient Greeks and Romans tried to outlaw poison， and in 1675 the French and German empires signed a treaty that outlawed poisoned bullets。 By WWI， the “futile slaughter of trench warfare” made toxic gases more attractive to the German High Command—and then everybody else。 Fear of reprisal precluded the use of nerve agents in WWII battlefields， but the Nazis found Zyklon B， an insecticide， to be an effective instrument of death in their gas chambers。 In the 1950s and ’60s， virtually every major power was developing and testing chemical weapons， and this deadly technology was often granted to client states：Egypt used nerve agents in its 1962 war against Yemen， and Iraq frequently used nerve agents against its Kurds。 Despite current debates about weapons of mass destruction， Tucker’s main points are not about warfare：his description of the 1995 Tokyo subway attack proves that with enough money， any madman can develop nerve gas。 In his final pages， Tucker does point out that we have“grounds for hope as well as concern，” but many readers will only find cause for pessimism。 Regardless， this is a sobering， detailed and necessary book。 （Feb.7） Copyright Reed Business Information， a division of Reed Elsevier Inc。 All rights reserved。
作者简介：
Jonathan B.Tucker received a B.S。in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D。 in political science，specializing in defense and arms control studies，from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology。For the past ten year，he has been a chemical and biological weapons specialist at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies。Dr.Tucker previously worked as an arms control specialist for Congress and the State Department and as an editor at Scientific American and at High Technology magazine，where he wrote about biomedical research，biotechnology，and military technologies。He lives in Washington，D.C。
目录
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Prologue： Live-Agent Training
CHAPTER ONE： The Chemistry of War
CHAPTE TWO： IG Farben
CHAPTE THERR： Twilight of the Gods
CHAPTE FIVE： Fight for the Spoils
CHAPTE SIX： Research and Development
CHAPTE SEVEN： Building the Stockpile
CHAPTE EIGHT： Chemical Arms Race
CHAPTE NINE： Agent Venomous
CHAPTE TEN：Yemen and After
CHAPTE ELEVEN： Incident at Skull Valley
CHAPTE TWELVE： New Fears
CHAPTE THIRTEEN： Binary Debate
CHAPTE FOURTEEN： Silent Spread
CHAPTE FIFTEEN： Peace and War
CHAPTE SIXTEEN： Whistle-Blower
CHAPTE SEVENTEEN： The Tokyo Subway
CHAPTE SEVENTEEN： The Tokyo Subway
CHAPTE EIGHTEEN： The Emerging Threat
Epilogue： Toward Abolition
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
