Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Edition

Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Edition by D. Hank Ellison (Author). Extensively revised and up to date, this second edition of the bestselling Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents goes properly beyond the “dirty thirty” generally discussed agents and supplies speedy entry to a wide range of brokers that can be utilized as weapons. This edition incorporates extra classes of brokers, expands current lessons, and increases the variety of agents described. Increasing the scope of the unique, this edition is wealthy with scientific data and provides extra information on the chemical, bodily, and organic properties of those brokers and their health effects. Highly organized and cross-referenced to supply on the spot access to the most authoritative information, this handbook is divided into lessons based on the widespread army groupings of chemical, biological, and toxin agents. Additional lessons are provided the place the divisions are too broad for applicable identification, together with lessons for non-conventional agents and improvised industrial materials. On the end of every class part is detailed technical information about individual brokers, components, precursors, and decomposition merchandise inside that class. 

Employing four indices together with the handbook’s personal identification number, each entry follows a normal format for that class together with toxicology, traits, hazards, safety, and medical response. Other information is offered the place relevant equivalent to chemical formulation, routes of exposure, medicinal makes use of, menace or treaty itemizing, and descriptions of the illness as it appears in humans, animals, and plants. All values are primarily based on a “standard” man mannequin to allow for consistency of knowledge and evaluations.

Still the gold-commonplace reference in the discipline, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Brokers, Second Edition raises the bar in terms of both quality and quantity and assures accuracy across the widest variety of military, scientific, and medical sources available.

D. Hank Ellison’s “Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Version” is a notable enchancment on the profitable first edition. This edition gives available access to data on greater than the standard “soiled 30″ CWAs and now contains additional agents, precursors and decomposition products. Plain text descriptions present the reader with some cursory background information before listing detailed information. Environmental destiny, private protecting tools, decontamination and mass casualty administration are among the many more interesting topics on the agents. As a member of the Department of Well being and Human Services DMORT-WMD emergency response team, Mr. Ellison is actually qualified to explain management of fatalities. - Rick Houghton, writer of Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials

Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Edition

D. Hank Ellison (Author)

800 pages

CRC Press; 2 edition (August 24, 2007)

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