The Chemical Weapons Taboo
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801473942 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not a novel or a fiction, but chilling, anyway! Benjamín Ruiz Loyola This book offers the reader a wide perspective about chemical weapons and how they have been used in the past. As a historic reference, it is invaluable, and as a work that helps the reader imagine what could happen in the future, this is a must. Every person involved or worried about mass destructions weapons, must read and treasure this book.. Highly recommended reading by nervegas.com Reid Kirby Richard Price writes a professional treatise on the perception of Chemical Weapons from WWI to current day. It is a profound work, and goes into refreshing details without the slightest redundancy with other works. The Chemical Weapons Taboo can be thought of as an original scholarly work.He clarifies many current day perceptions on Chemical Weapons by analyzing treaties and political decisions. Rather than rely on perfunctory assumptions of those treaties, he analyzes the committee notes and conduct of those treaties to show the conflict of ideas withi. BarbaraBSP said No association with the ASA Newsletter. The Richard M. Price who wrote "The Chemical Weapons Taboo" is not the same Richard M. Price who has been in chemical and biological and radiological defense since 198No association with the ASA Newsletter The Richard M. Price who wrote "The Chemical Weapons Taboo" is not the same Richard M. Price who has been in chemical and biological and radiological defense since 1983. This is just a coincidence of names.. . This is just a coincidence of names.
of Minnesota) argues that chemical weapons "have thus far defied the usual pattern" and are seen as "contemptible and reprehensible." Would that he could tell us clearly why. An optional purchase for academic libraries.?John J. Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Ranging from World War I to the Gulf War, he tries to decipher this taboo, but his argument gets lost in an arcane discourse. From Library Journal From the first sentence in the preface?"This book is a meditation on the relationship between morality and technology"?readers should be prepared more for a philosophical discussion than for hideous descripti
He traces the moral arguments against gas warfare from the Hague Conferences at the turn of the century through negotiations for the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the crossbow to nuclear bombs. From the Italian invasion of Ethiopia to the war between Iran and Iraq, chemical weapons have been condemned as the "poor man's bomb." Drawing upon insights from Michel Foucault to explain the role of moral norms in an international arena rarely sensitive to such pressures, he focuses on the construction of and mutations in the refusal to condone chemical weapons.. Perceptions of chemical warfare as particularly abhorrent have been successfully institutionalized in international proscriptions and, Price suggests, understanding the sources of this success might shed light on other efforts at arms control.To explore the origins and meaning of the chemical weapons taboo, Price presents a series of case studies from World War I through the Gulf War of 1990–1991. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Richard M