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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 167 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte) organised an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined key aspects of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment - including the issue of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The Proceedings volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until this day.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Warfare & defence Weapons & equipment

• Plný název: One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
• Autor: Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 408
• EAN: 9783319516639
• ISBN: 3319516639
• ID: 15496741
• Nakladatelství: Springer International Publishing AG
• Hmotnost: 7509 g
• Rozměry: 235 × 155 × 25 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. July 2017

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