TY - BOOK ID - 31261162 TI - One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences AU - Florian Schmaltz AU - Friedrich, Bretislav. AU - Hoffmann, Dieter. AU - Renn, Jürgen. AU - Schmaltz, Florian. AU - Wolf, Martin. PY - 2017 SN - 3319516647 3319516639 PB - Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - History. KW - Military history. KW - Politics and war. KW - Chemistry KW - Research KW - System safety. KW - International humanitarian law. KW - History of Military. KW - Military and Defence Studies. KW - History of Chemistry. KW - Research Ethics. KW - International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. KW - Security Science and Technology. KW - Humanitarian conventions KW - International humanitarian law KW - War (International law) KW - Safety, System KW - Safety of systems KW - Systems safety KW - Accidents KW - Industrial safety KW - Systems engineering KW - Research ethics KW - War KW - War and politics KW - Military historiography KW - Military history KW - Wars KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Naval history KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Prevention KW - Political aspects KW - Chemistry-History. KW - Research-Moral and ethical aspec. KW - Chemistry—History. KW - Research—Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Anti-plant Chemical Warfare KW - Weapons of Mass Destruction KW - Military-Industrial Complex KW - Ethics of Chemical Warfare KW - Fritz Haber KW - Lethal Unitary Chemical Agents and Munitions KW - Chemical Weapons in the Middle East KW - Dual-use Problem KW - Chemical Weapons During World War II KW - 1925 Geneva Protocol KW - Chemical Weapons During World War I UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31261162 AB - This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber’s institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment — including the issue of dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015. ER -