epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Harris

It might have seemed that the primacy of biological weaponry, with its huge capacity for destruction, had ended when the mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Since ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Gary Matsumoto [Matsumoto, Gary]

Again, what is said is often less important than what is left unsaid, and the GAO left a lot unsaid. By the time the GAO published its report, the NIH ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Philip M. Tierno, Jr., Ph.D.

8 CHOLERA Bioterror Agent Vibrio cholerae Type of Weapon Bacterium Disease Caused Cholera Transmissible (person-to-person) Rare Incubation Period 4 hours to 5 days Cardinal Features of Disease “rice water” stools, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:John Parascandola [Parascandola, John]

Gannal’s formula for his embalming fluid included arsenic as one of the ingredients. Tranchina also used arsenic in his process. While the arsenic was effective for preservation purposes, concerns were ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Frank Settle

CHAPTER NINE Japan’s Response to the Potsdam Declaration, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki At the end of July 1945 the leaders of the governments of the United States and Japan remained deadlocked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mark G. Kortepeter

The extremely high attack rate didn’t jibe with malaria, especially for marines taking malaria pills. It had the classic hallmarks of a point-source outbreak from a common exposure—like when a ...

epub |eng | 2002-02-20 | Author:Robert Harris & Jeremy Paxman [Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman]

This sensational story appeared in the San Francisco Examiner from an apparently unimpeachable source, the former deputy chief of US Naval Intelligence. But despite the tone of certainty which informed ...

mobi, epub |fr | 2009-03-05 | Author:Tom Zoellner

Taking a break during the twelve-hour shift was unthinkable. Many skipped lunch, preferring to drill at the walls instead. And going aboveground to use the toilet was a sure ticket ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Two different Carthaginian commanders, Himlico and Maharbal, were credited with defeating barbarian tribes with poisoned wine. According to Polyaenus, Himilco, a “pertinacious soldier” who owed most of his victories to ...