Smoke Screens and Gas Masks
Smoke Screens and Gas Masks

Author: Tim Ripley

Publisher: Lerner Publications ™

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1512473952

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In the 1960s during the Vietnam War, US forces used a chemical substance called napalm to burn away the jungle in search of enemy soldiers. But when napalm came in contact with human skin, it caused horrific injuries. Its use in war became highly controversial. Chemistry has long been at the heart of warfare. The invention of gunpowder ninth-century China led to the development of guns, grenades, and other explosives. In World War I chemists created deadly poison gas—as well as gas masks to protect soldiers from enemy gas. From Greek fire to bulletproof vests, learn how chemistry has changed how wars are fought.

Smoke Screens and Gas Masks
Smoke Screens and Gas Masks

Author: Tim Ripley

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1512439258

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"Through intriguing text and graphics, readers will learn about incredible real-world applications for chemistry. To both attack and defend, scientists have used chemistry in important ways to greatly impact history through war."--Provided by publisher.

Behind the Gas Mask
Behind the Gas Mask

Author: Thomas I Faith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0252096622

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In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.

The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

Author: Peter Thompson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1009314831

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Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.