Yellow Rain and Related Issues
Author | : Steven R. Bowman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Chemical warfare |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Steven R. Bowman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Chemical warfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. B. Schiefer |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9782881244162 |
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Julio Llamazares |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Ainielle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses now stand deserted - most of them in ruins. Its last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, lingers on and as the yellow rain of autumn leaves fall around him, he recalls the life he lived.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, International Operations, and Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Arms control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, International Operations, and Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biological warfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, International Operations, and Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Arms control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mai Der Vang |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1644451573 |
A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as “yellow rain,” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties. A Cold War scandal erupted, wrapped in partisan debate around chemical arms development versus control. And then, to the world’s astonishment, American scientists argued that yellow rain was the feces of honeybees defecating en masse—still held as the widely accepted explanation. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited. Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Chemical warfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward M. Spiers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1137104546 |
Ever since its employment in the First World War, chemical warfare has always aroused controversy. Governments have responded by pursuing the policies of disarmament and deterrence in the hope of avoiding its recurrence. However, despite the signing of the Geneva Protocol in 1925 which banned the use of poison gas, chemical weapons have been used in subsequent conflicts and most recently in the Gulf War between Iraq and Iran. In this work the policies of disarmament and deterrence will be reassessed within a broad historical and strategic context. It will be argued that poison gas could still be used in a modern European conflict; that the Soviet forces are the best equipped to operate in a contaminated environment; and that weaknesses persist in NATO's anti-chemical defences and in her deterrent. It will be emphasised, too, that the Geneva disarmament talks, which have made some progress in recent years, still face formidable difficulties over the issues of verification and compliance. Above all, it will be claimed that the onset of nuclear parity between the superpowers has eroded the credibility of a deterrent to chemical attack based upon the threat of nuclear release. Accordingly, this book will contend that the United States should modernize her stockpile of chemical weapons to bolster the Western deterrent and to provide more leverage for the negotiations in Geneva.
Author | : Edmund Scherr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Chemical warfare |
ISBN | : |