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CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959I would like to start with two definitions defining chemical warfare and biological warfare from a civil defense point of view. Chemical warfare is the intentional use of toxic chemicals to kill or confuse man. Biological warfare is the intentional use of living organisms or their toxic products to produce death, disability, or damage to man, animals ...
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Critical Care Clinics, 1997
The threat of civilian and military casualties from nerve agent exposure has become a greater concern over the past decade. After rapidly assessing that a nerve agent attack has occurred, emphasis must be placed on decontamination and protection of both rescuers and medical personnel from exposure.
Frederick R. Sidell +2 more
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The threat of civilian and military casualties from nerve agent exposure has become a greater concern over the past decade. After rapidly assessing that a nerve agent attack has occurred, emphasis must be placed on decontamination and protection of both rescuers and medical personnel from exposure.
Frederick R. Sidell +2 more
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ChemInform, 2005
AbstractChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
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AbstractChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
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1986
In 1967, NATO adopted the strategy of flexible response by which it proposed to deter any level of aggression by threatening to retaliate with appropriate levels of military force. Seeking to avoid undue reliance on nuclear weapons, and so enhance the credibility of its deterrent, NATO favoured responding to a conventional attack in kind.
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In 1967, NATO adopted the strategy of flexible response by which it proposed to deter any level of aggression by threatening to retaliate with appropriate levels of military force. Seeking to avoid undue reliance on nuclear weapons, and so enhance the credibility of its deterrent, NATO favoured responding to a conventional attack in kind.
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
American Political Science Review, 1974Why should the world be more averse to chemical and biological warfare (CBW) than to other forms of war, repeatedly attempting to ban such warfare by means of international law? Is there some objective difference between poison gas or plague bacilli on one hand, and steel bullets, or B-52 high explosive bombs, or nuclear weapons on the other?
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2015
The use of chemical warfare agents is of serious concern for the military and civilian populations. The experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reveals that nerve agents and mustard gas are the main chemicals used for mass destruction. The vesicating effect of mustard gas is the main focus of this review.
Elena Proscura +4 more
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The use of chemical warfare agents is of serious concern for the military and civilian populations. The experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reveals that nerve agents and mustard gas are the main chemicals used for mass destruction. The vesicating effect of mustard gas is the main focus of this review.
Elena Proscura +4 more
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Chemical-Biological Warfare in Asia
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1983DURING the first six months of 1980, I was involved in the Indo-Chinese refugee relief effort in Thailand as a volunteer physician at Ban Vinai camp. This camp is the principal refuge of the Laotian Hmong population, who are enemies of the Communist Pathet Lao and Vietnamese governments because of the Hmong's collaboration with the United States in the
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[Medical aspects of chemical warfare].
L'union medicale du Canada, 1998The first-aid treatment of mass casualties from nerve gas relies mainly upon the use of drugs, and provision for their self-injection is recommended. Means for giving artificial respiration must also be provided, even though its large-scale use is regarded as impracticable. Prophylactic oxime (2 g.
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Chemical Warfare and the Skin [PDF]
International Journal of Dermatology, 1991 openaire +2 more sources