Chemical warfare during the Vietnam War
Subtitle: riot control agents in combat
By: by D. Hank Ellison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780415876445; 9780415876452
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Chemical warfare; War use; Asphyxiating and poisonous Gases; Riot control agents
Description: "Documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own"--Prelimimary page.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.