Argumento de Soviet Chemical Armament. Part 1: History, Politics
Encuadernación: Rústica.
This book synthesizes for the first time ever the information from various Soviet archives (military, governmental, economic, public, etc.) about the creation and development of chemical weapons in the Soviet Union, and provides data about the wide-ranging and secret preparation of USSR for an offensive chemical warfare against a potential enemy.
Additionally, the book offers a general analysis about the influence of chemical warfare on the environment.
The book is intended for scientists, military experts, chemical and medical specialists, environmental activists and a wide range of readers with an interest in chemical warfare and chemical safety. 1Preface
Chapter 1. Chemistry as a weapon of the revolutionary army
1.1. World War I
1.2. The chemical legacy of the Russian Empire
1.3. After the Bolshevik coup detat
1.4. Poison for the enemies of Soviet power
1.5. The making of a chemical warfare organization
1.6. Military chemistry and the Soviet economy
Chapter 2. Chemical enemies and friends abroad
2.1. Soviet intelligence at work
2.2. The great German chemistry
2.3. Combat collaboration with Hitlers predecessors
2.4. The attempt at a military friendship with Mussolini
2.5. Other countries
Chapter 3 The creation of a chemical warfare industry
3.1. The formation of a nitrogen and chlorine industry
3.2. Sulfuric independence
3.3. The battle for arsenic
3.4. The overall infrastructure of chemical warfare
3.5. The Soviet poison industry before the war
Chapter 4 Pre-war soviet chemical weapons
4.1. Poison -- its so tempting
4.2. Chemical warfare systems
4.3. Chemical artillery weapons
4.4. A chemical portrait of land-forces
4.5. The chemical troops
4.6. Chemical weapons for aviation
Chapter 5 The Great Patriotic War
5.1. Ready for battle with imperialists
5.2. Winter war and other events of 1938--1940
5.3. The Great Patriotic War
5.4. Chemical warfare achievements
5.5. The everyday life of the chemical attack industry
5.6. The chemical trophies of the Great War
Chapter 6 Military chemistry after the Great War
6.1. Cold war with a chemical inclination
6.2. From sarin to soman
6.3. Towards total chemical warfare
6.4. Chemical warfare agents and the 20th century
6.5. How much poison was prepared
6.6. Soviet chemical munitions
Chapter 7 The soviet chemical warfare complex
7.1. A chemical portrait of the Red/Soviet Army
7.2. The chemical warfare industry
7.3. Secret medicine
7.4. The triumph of the chemical warfare complex
List of abbreviations
References