| View Larger Image | A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents | Paperbackby Jared, Ledgard (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Jared Ledgard | | Page Count: | 268 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 01, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 606,524th |
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Product Description
A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents is a revolutionary new book discussing the laboratory preparation of some of the most interesting toxic substances known to man. However broad the field may be, this book is an invaluable collection of nearly 100 years of chemical warfare research and history. From the researcher to the student or just plain novice, the information contained herein will change the way you think about warfare agents and their properties. The book is a valuable educational tool designed to give the reader a full picture of the world of chemical warfare agents. NOTE TO CUSTOMERS, this book has been renamed from The Preparatory Manual of Chemical Warfare Agents so if you have already purchased The Preparatory Manual of Chemical Warfare Agents in the past, then you don't need to purchase A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 2 reviews)
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Very informative and professionally written by T. Evans (Missoula MT USA)  5 Stars
March 09, 2009
A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents is the best book in my opinion on the subject of the chemistry of chemical warfare agents. The book is a complete source of chemical warfare information, and is filled with valuable information on over 50 of the most commonly used warfare agents. The book is written in sections starting off with a laboratory tutorial and reference guide, followed by lachrymator, disabling, and irritant agents, then followed by blood agents, blister agents, then followed by nerve agents, followed by experimental agents, and then closing with methods of dissemination and use. Each section comes with precise and direct information discussing the physical nature and properties of each class of chemical agents and their physical properties. Each chemical warfare agent is discussed in great detail with general and detailed information on each substance and includes precise chemical formulas and exhaustive detailed laboratory procedures for their preparation. The book also emphasizes the toxicities of each agent, and safety and hazard information. This is a great book, and one of the best technical chemical warfare books available, and is well worth the price. The book discusses all the controversial agents such as sulfur mustards such as the classic mustard gas, nitrogen mustards such as HN1, HN2, and HN3, choking agents such as chloropicrin, irritants such as the common agent CS, vomiting agents such as phenyl dichloroarsine, blood agents such as the well known hydrogen cyanide, cyanogens, and the arsines, followed by the most feared of all chemical agents: the nerve agents, which includes all the classes of nerve agents such as the G-agents including Sarin, and Soman; the Tabun agents including Tabun and Tabun-II, the V-agents including VX, IIVX, and sub-VX, followed by the more newer cyclic NPF-agents. The book closes by discussing radical experimental agents that are by far the most controversial in nature that there are no names given to them yet. A must have book for anyone's book collection, and unlike an individuals opinion, a 5 star book all the way. A++++++++
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Not well informed by Reid Kirby (St. Charles, MO)  1 Stars
February 05, 2009
A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents was previously titled as a prepetory manual. The book represents an odd assortment of 52 chemicals, many only of a laboratory interest (e.g., thio-sarin). The book provides scant information on the chemicals themselves, with almost complete focus on barely inteligable recipes for laboratory production that is near meaningless to anyone other than a chemist.
The book starts with the expected disclaimers that no one should attempt make the substances detailed in the book and proceeds to recommend itself as a learning tool for police and a laboratory guide for legitamate researchers. The problem is the book is not written for investigators and is void of the literature references researchers would expect.
What information is provided in regards to chemical warfare (mostly one-liners) is grossly inacurate from both a technical and historical perspective. For example, the Japanese used nerve agents on China in WWII (wrong); mustard gas would not be used by a modern army over other blister agents like the nitrogen mustards (wrong); phosgene is a blood agent (wrong).
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