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Article: Chemical weapons.(War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda)(Book review)
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- September 22, 2006
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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
by Jonathan B. Tucker. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006, 479 pp.
The issue of chemical warfare has frayed the nerves of policymakers for the past century. Most recently, the U.S.-led coalition fully expected to find stockpiles of chemical weapons when it invaded Iraq (it did not). The United States and others worry that terrorists may figure out how to make them and then use them.
Yet as Jonathan B. Tucker makes clear in this highly readable and authoritative history, the current situation regarding chemical warfare is far brighter than many thought possible two or three decades ago. ...