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Author | : G. B. Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biological stations |
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For just over 75 years, the Establishments at Porton Down have been engaged in providing protective measures for British Service personnel - and often British civilians - against chemical, and more recently biological, warfare. Its activities have up until now been little-known, often misunderstood and often maligned. This book presents the history of Porton Down with as much detail as possible. It examines the origins of the establishment in World War II and the changing role and nature of activity there in the 1920s, 1930s and World War II and afterwards.
Author | : Ulf Schmidt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019929979X |
Charting the ethical trajectory and culture of military science from its development in 1915 in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in WW1 to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these weapons, Secret Science offers a comprehensive history of chemical and biological weapons research by former Allied powers.
Author | : Nature Conservancy Council (Great Britain). South Region |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Porton Down |
ISBN | : 9780861391134 |
Author | : G. B. Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780115010132 |
For just over 75 years, the Establishments at Porton Down have been engaged in providing protective measures for British Service personnel - and often British civilians - against chemical, and more recently biological, warfare. Its activities have up until now been little-known, often misunderstood and often maligned. This book presents the history of Porton Down with as much detail as possible. It examines the origins of the establishment in World War II and the changing role and nature of activity there in the 1920s, 1930s and World War II and afterwards.
Author | : Ulf Schmidt |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191062979 |
From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant, sometimes harmful, and in isolated cases deadly. Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all. It asks whether Allied and especially British warfare trials were ethical, safe, and justified within the prevailing conditions and values of the time. By doing so, it helps to explain the complex dynamics in top-secret Allied research establishments: the desire and ability of the chemical and biological warfare corps, largely comprised of military officials, scientists, and expert civil servants, to construct and identify a never-ending stream of national security threats which served as flexible justification strategies for the allocation of enormous resources to conducting experimental research with some of the most deadly agents known to man. Secret Science offers a nuanced, non-judgemental analysis of the contributions made by servicemen, scientists, and civil servants to military research in Britain and elsewhere, not as passive, helpless victims 'without voices', or as laboratory and desk perpetrators 'without a conscience', but as history's actors and agents of their own destiny. As such it also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history and culture of memory.
Author | : Eric A. Croddy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1086 |
Release | : 2004-12-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1851094954 |
The first accessible reference to cover the history, context, current issues, and key concepts surrounding biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. A collection of information on everything from aerosols to zones of peace, these two volumes cover historical background, technology, and strategic implications of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, thus providing facts, terms, and context needed to participate in contemporary policy debate. This encyclopedia is the only comprehensive reference dedicated to the three types of weapons of mass destruction. With over 500 entries arranged alphabetically, volume one covers biological and chemical weapons, while volume two focuses on nuclear weapons. Experts from eight countries cover issues related to these weapons, policies, strategies, technologies, delivery vehicles, arms control concepts, treaties, and key historical figures and locations. Entries are written to make difficult concepts easy to understand by cutting through military and scientific jargon. Students, lay readers, scientists, and government policy makers are provided with the broad range of information needed to place today's policy discussions in proper strategic or historical context.
Author | : Bruce Budowle |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2010-10-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0123820073 |
Microbial Forensics is a rapidly evolving scientific discipline. In the last decade, and particularly due to the anthrax letter attacks in the United States, microbial forensics has become more formalized and has played an increasingly greater role in crime investigations. This has brought renewed interest, development and application of new technologies, and new rules of forensic and policy engagement. It has many applications ranging from biodefense, criminal investigations, providing intelligence information, making society more secure, and helping protect precious resources, particularly human life. A combination of diverse areas is investigated, including the major disciplines of biology, microbiology, medicine, chemistry, physics, statistics, population genetics, and computer science. Microbial Forensics, Second Edition is fully revised and updated and serves as a complete reference of the discipline. It describes the advances, as well as the challenges and opportunities ahead, and will be integral in applying science to help solve future biocrimes. - A collection of microbiology, virology, toxicology and mycology as it relates to forensics, in one reference - New and expanded content to include statistical analysis of forensic data and legal admissibility and the standards of evidence, to name a few - Includes research information and application of that research to crime scene analysis, which will allow practitioners to understand and apply the knowledge to their practice with ease
Author | : Wastell, David |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447322347 |
There's no hotter area of science, at least as far as the general media and laypeople are concerned, than neuroscience--every day we hear of dramatic, surprising discoveries that seem to have the potential to utterly change our understanding of how the mind works. This book offers the first thorough review of such claims and the new biological science behind them. It examines the actual and potential applications of neuroscience within social policy and the impact of neuroscientific discoveries on long-standing moral debates and professional practices throughout social work, mental health practice, and criminal justice.
Author | : Rob Evans |
Publisher | : House of Stratus Limited |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780755103539 |
Porton Down, the oldest chemical warfare station in the world, holds one of Britain's most chilling secrets - since 1916, more than 25,000 human subjects have taken part in Porton's controversial experiments, a series of tests that has involved nerve gas, mustard gas, tear gas, even LSD and other mind-bending drugs. In his ground-breaking study, author Rob Evans painstakingly reveals the truth of what has gone on behind the barbed wire and 'keep out' signs - the appalling facts of the tests, the ethics both of the experiments and the 'volunteer' process, the motivations of the scientists, the subsequent side-effects the human guinea-pigs have suffered, and their on-going fight for compensation.
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.