The United States and Biological Warfare

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Endicott was born in Shanghai of missionary parents and grew up in China before the Communist revolution. His family lived in Sichuan province for three generations where he returned to teach in the 1980s. Dr. Endicott, who is a graduate of the University of Toronto, has received the Killam Senior Fellowship and other academic awards while teaching East Asian history at York University. His books include Diplomacy and Enterprise: British China Policy 1933-1937, James G. Endicott: Rebel Out of China, and Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village. Edward Hagerman is a member of the history faculty of York University in Toronto. He has published many articles on the origins of modern war and modern total war, and has contributed to textbooks for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff college, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the Air War College of the U.S. Air Force. He has authored The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare. Klappentext An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare. Zusammenfassung Argues that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. This title explores the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps, tables, photo credits Introduction Chapter 1. Aches and Fevers in China and Korea Chapter 2. Second World War Origins Chapter 3. The Japanese Connection Chapter 4. The Secretary of Defense and Revival of a Program Chapter 5. Research and Development 1945-1953 Chapter 6. Plans and Missions Chapter 7. Korea: a limited war? Chapter 8. Psychological Warfare and the 581st ARC Wing Chapter 9. The CIA in the Korean War Chapter 10. Insect Vectors in Occupied Japan: Unit 406 Chapter 11. The Flyers Chapter 12. Conclusion Bibliographic Notes Appendices Index ...

Klappentext
An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare.

Zusammenfassung
Argues that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. This title explores the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.

Inhalt
List of maps, tables, photo credits
Introduction
Chapter 1. Aches and Fevers in China and Korea
Chapter 2. Second World War Origins
Chapter 3. The Japanese Connection
Chapter 4. The Secretary of Defense and Revival of a Program
Chapter 5. Research and Development 1945-1953
Chapter 6. Plans and Missions
Chapter 7. Korea: a limited war?
Chapter 8. Psychological Warfare and the 581st ARC Wing
Chapter 9. The CIA in the Korean War
Chapter 10. Insect Vectors in Occupied Japan: Unit 406
Chapter 11. The Flyers
Chapter 12. Conclusion
Bibliographic Notes
Appendices
Index

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