Riot Control Agents and Herbicides in War: Their Humanitarian, Toxicological, Ecological, Military, Polemological, and Legal Aspects

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BRILL, Mar 29, 1977 - History - 377 pages
 

Contents

The New American Doctrine On Riot Control Agents
3
The induction of international and foreign sources as subsidiary
10
The Nature of Riot Control Agents As Distinguished
19
trol agents
28
General toxicological aspects of riot control agents
34
The Uniqueness Of The New American Definition
69
The New American Doctrine On AntiPlant Agents
75
The Nature of AntiPlant Agents As Distinguished
79
The road towards biological and nuclear warfare
198
Conventional Law
207
The Gas Declaration of 1899
222
Specific Customary Law
259
The situation at the end of World War II
272
What kinds of armed conflicts are covered by the customary
284
General Customary Law
291
Policy Guidelines A New Geneva Protocol?
297

The new American definition of chemical warfare
155
The Risk Of OneSided Escalation
161
Description of antiplant agents adopted for military
176
The Risk Of TwoSided Escalation
191
Notes
315
Sources
353
Subject index
373
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