a century of poison warfare and human experiments /
Ulf Schmidt
First edition
xxxi, 637 pages :
illustrations, portraits ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Justifying chemical warfare -- Research without bounds -- Preparing for total warfare -- Deadly new gases -- Flying the Atlantic -- Ethics in the open air -- Twilight threshold -- Ethics within limits -- The politics of medical memory
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"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."--Back cover