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Fatal Airs: The Deadly History and Apocalyptic Future of Lethal Gases That Threaten Our World relates the fascinatingÑand appallingÑstories of the discovery, development, applications, and occupational and public health hazards of natural and man-made gases. Some of these gases have figured in mass extinctions. Others have created havoc through their use in chemical warfare or their accidental release. ||Among the hundreds of man-made lethal gases, several have been singled out for attention, including chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, lewisite, hydrogen cyanide, and the nerve agents tabun, sar

Charting the ethical trajectory and culture of military science from its development in 1915 in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in WW1 to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these weapons, Secret Science offers a comprehensive history of chemical and biological weapons research by former Allied powers.

Intro -- Hazardous Gases: Risk Assessment on the Environment and Human Health -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Arsenic pentafluoride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Occurrence -- 1.3. Physicochemical properties -- 1.4. Physiological role -- 1.5. Uses -- 1.6. Risk assessment -- 1.7. Hazardousness -- 1.8. Treatment -- 1.9. Risk management -- 1.10. Current research -- 1.11. Safety measures -- 1.12. Handling and storage (Jaishankar et al., 2014) -- Handling -- Storage -- 1.13. Precautions -- References -- Chapter 2: Arsine: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Occurrence -- 2.3. Historical background -- 2.4. Physicochemical properties -- 2.5. Physiological role -- 2.6. Uses -- 2.7. Sources of contaminants -- 2.8. Risk assessment -- 2.9. Hazardousness -- 2.10. Treatment -- 2.11. Risk management -- 2.12. Current research -- 2.13. Arsine toxicity: Case studies -- 2.14. Safety measures -- 2.15. Handling -- 2.16. Storage (Hong et al., 2014) -- 2.17. Precautions -- References -- Chapter 3: Boron trichloride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Occurrence -- 3.3. Physicochemical properties -- 3.4. Physiological role -- 3.5. Uses -- 3.6. Source of contaminants -- 3.7. Risk assessment -- 3.8. Hazardousness -- 3.9. Environmental effects -- 3.10. Risk management -- 3.11. Safety measures -- 3.12. Handling and storage -- Handling -- Storage -- 3.13. Precautions -- References -- Chapter 4: Boron trifluoride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Occurrence -- 4.3. Historical background -- 4.4. Physicochemical properties -- 4.5. Uses -- 4.6. Sources of contaminants -- 4.7. Risk assessment -- 4.8. Environmental effects -- 4.9. Hazardousness.

Convention to be opened for signature in 1993 forbids producing, retaining, transferring, or using poison gas, and provides for verification procedures; 4 articles, interview, and text of convention.

International perspectives on the UN chemical weapons convention, open for signature in 1993; 12 articles.

Lists chemical weapons by agent at eight continental US sites and the Johnston Atoll destruction facility in the Pacific Ocean. Unitary agents include persistent and non-persistent nerve and mustard agents.