The Chemical Weapons Taboo / / Richard M. Price.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Price, Richard M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Price, Richard M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the crossbow to nuclear bombs...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Weapons, Morality, And War
• 2. The Origins Of The Chemical Weapons Taboo
• 3. World War I
• 4. The Interwar Period
• 5. Colonizing Chemical Warfare
• 6. A Weapon Of The Weak
• 7. On Technology And Morality
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index