Arsenic and old mustard : chemical problems in the destruction of old arsenical and 'mustard' munitions /
More than ten million `poison gas' shells, mortar bombs, etc., lie hidden in Europe, many of them relics from World War I. Some were fired and failed to detonate, others were abandoned in old ammunition dumps. Most retain their load of chemical warfare (CW) agents. They are turned up daily in t...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[1998]
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| Series: | NATO science series. Disarmament technologies ;
v. 19. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | More than ten million `poison gas' shells, mortar bombs, etc., lie hidden in Europe, many of them relics from World War I. Some were fired and failed to detonate, others were abandoned in old ammunition dumps. Most retain their load of chemical warfare (CW) agents. They are turned up daily in the course of farming and construction. Many European nations have permanent departments concerned with their collection and destruction. Old munitions, when discovered, are usually heavily corroded and difficult to identify. Is it a CW munition? Or an explosive? If CW, what agent does it contain? Once identified, one has to select a destruction method. Some of the methods that have been proposed are less than perfect, and are often complicated by the presence of extraneous chemicals, either mixed with the CW agents during manufacture or formed over decades in the ground. Of particular interest are the insiders' reports on the German CW programmes of both World Wars, and the current status of Russian chemical armaments. |
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| Item Description: | "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Chemical Problems Associated with Old Arsenical and 'Mustard' Munitions, Łódź, Poland, 17-19 March 1996"--Title page verso. "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division." Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789401591157 (electronic bk.) 9401591156 (electronic bk.) |