Dew Of Death
Subtitle: The Story Of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon Of Mass Destruction
Contributors: Richard Butler (Foreword)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780253346124
Subjects: Chemical & biological weapons; World history: First World War; History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare; Lewisite (Poison gas); Organoarsenic compounds; Toxicology
First sentence: In 1878 two men of science who would become unpredictably linked to the development of what some consider the world's first weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were born eighty-five hundred miles apart-Julius Aloysius Nieuwland in Belgium and Winford Lee Lewis in California.