基本説明
Includes everything that emergency response teams need to know to deal with lethal materials. This second edition improves cross-referencing with exhaustive indexing and agents displayed by classification. Features new sections on the preparation of chemical and biological agents as well as munitions markings and incendiary agents.
Full Description
Extensively revised and updated, this second edition of the bestselling Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents goes well beyond the "dirty thirty" commonly discussed agents and provides rapid access to a wide range of agents that can be used as weapons. This edition incorporates additional classes of agents, expands existing classes, and increases the number of agents described. Expanding the scope of the original, this edition is rich with scientific data and provides more information on the chemical, physical, and biological properties of these agents and their health effects.
Highly organized and cross-referenced to provide instant access to the most authoritative data, this handbook is divided into classes based on the common military groupings of chemical, biological, and toxin agents. Additional classes are provided where the divisions are too broad for appropriate identification, along with classes for non-traditional agents and improvised industrial materials. At the end of each class section is detailed technical information about individual agents, components, precursors, and decomposition products within that class.
Employing four indices along with the handbook's own identification number, each entry follows a standard format for that class including toxicology, characteristics, hazards, protection, and medical response. Other information is provided where applicable such as chemical formula, routes of exposure, medicinal uses, threat or treaty listing, and descriptions of the disease as it appears in humans, animals, and plants. All values are based on a "standard" man model to allow for consistency of data and evaluations.
Still the gold-standard reference in the field, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, 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.
Contents
Nerve Agents, Organophosphorus Nerve Agents, Carbamate Nerve Agents, Vesicant/Urticant Agents, Sulfur and Nitrogen Vesicants, Arsenic Vesicants, Urticants, Toxic Agents, Bicyclophosphate Convulsants, COX Inhibiting Blood Agents, Arsine Blood Agents, Carbon Monoxide Blood Agents, Pulmonary Agents, Toxic Industrial Agents, Incapacitation and Riot Control Agents, Incapacitating Agents, Irritating and Lachrymatory Agents, Vomiting/Sternatory Agents, Malodorants, Biological Agents, Toxins, Bacterial Pathogens, Viral Pathogens, Rickettsial Pathogens, Fungal Pathogens, Additional Information, Index
