Innocence Slaughtered by Jean Pascal Zanders

Innocence Slaughtered by Jean Pascal Zanders

The introduction of chemical warfare to the battlefield on 22 April 1915 changed the face of total warfare. Not only did it bring science to combat, it was both the product of societal transformation and a shaper of the 20th century societies.

This remarkably documented historical account of the first large-scale use of chemical weapons a century ago comes as a timely reminder of the horrors and human sufferings caused by such an inhumane weaponIndeed, after recent cases of chemical attacks in the Middle East, the already substantial international efforts to prohibit the use and possession of this weapon of mass destruction and eliminate it forever must reach their ultimate phase. This volume should help decision makers to preserve humanity from this scourge in the future. --Marc Finaud - Senior Programme Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security Policy; In a centennial year that commemorates the first use of chemical weapons on the Western Front, few would deny its persistent presence in modern memory. For many years, historians have tended to view the subject in national terms. Now, in this seminal collection, Professor Zanders and colleagues deepen and connect these narratives, and show how chemical warfare, shaped by industrial science, fostered new discourses of terror, shock and fear across the world. From shared experiences, lessons were learned, and norms were established, but a century later, the world has yet to see its abolition. This book is a salutary reminder of the horrors of chemical warfare and the challenge they present to mankind. --Roy MacLeod - School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney; As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first major use of chemical weapons in warfare in WWI, the new volume, Innocence Slaughtered by Jean Pascal Zanders and colleagues importantly documents the inhumane and indiscriminate nature of these weapons of mass destruction. This historic volume is a timely reminder, while chlorine is being used in Syria, of the ghastly nature of gas warfare and why we need to abolish these weapons. --Paul F. Walker, Ph.D. - Director, Environmental Security and Sustainability, Green Cross International; These excellent, accessible accounts of how the modern world started using chemical weapons is a valuable addition to the wider understanding of this issue, sadly now of renewed relevance as poison gas once again appears on battlefields. The histories of people whose experiences have not previously been widely available to non-specialists are especially welcome. So are Dr. Zanders's scholarly analyses of the world's successive efforts to ban these weapons. Most of this book recounts how the first ban failed spectacularly during World War I. Perhaps if we understand that better, the second effort to ban these things, launched only in 1997, will have a better chance. Debora MacKenzie - New Scientist magazine

Zanders, Jean Pascal: - Dr Jean Pascal Zanders specializes in questions of armament and disarmament, covering chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, as well as space policy. Using foresighting strategies, he is currently investigating the meaning of disarmament in the today's security context, including the longer-term future of the Chemical and Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions and the preconditions for new global and regional disarmament initiatives. His interest also goes to the internal dynamics of a terrorist or criminal entity seeking to acquire a chemical or biological weapons capability. He participates in working groups studying opportunities for non-conventional weapon disarmament in the Middle East. He has published extensively on chemical and biological weapon and other security issues in English, Dutch and French since 1986.

He was a Senior Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EU-ISS) in Paris from June 2008 until May 2013. From 2010 onwards he has participated as an expert to the EU Delegations in BTWC and CWC meetings.

Before that he was Project Leader of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from October 1996 until August 2003 and Director of the Geneva-based BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP) between April 2003 and May 2008. At the BWPP he was also entrusted with the implementation of the first European Union Joint Action in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (2006-2008).

He holds Masters Degrees in Germanic Philology-Linguistics (1980) and Political Sciences (1992) and a PhD in Political Sciences (1996) from the Free University of Brussels (VUB).

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ISBN 13	9781910500415
ISBN 10	1910500410
Title	Innocence Slaughtered
Author	Jean Pascal Zanders
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Unicorn Publishing Group
Year published	2015-12-01
Number of pages	272
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