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"Dr. Vilensky raises important concerns regarding the threats posed by lewisite and other weapons of mass destruction. As he describes, non-proliferation programs are a vital component in the War on Terror." ―Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator"Joel Vilensky’s book is a detailed and immensely useful account of the development and history of one of the major chemical weapons.... We will always know how to make lewisite, the ‘Dew of Death,’ but that does not mean that we should, or be compelled to accept such weapons in our lives." ―from the Foreword by Richard Butler, former head of UN Special Commission to Disarm IraqIn 1919, when the Great War was over, the New York Times reported on a new chemical weapon with "the fragrance of geranium blossoms," a poison gas that was "the climax of this country’s achievements in the lethal arts." The name of this substance was lewisite and this is its story―the story of an American weapon of mass destruction.Discovered by accident by a graduate student and priest in a chemistry laboratory at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., lewisite was developed into a weapon by Winford Lewis, who became its namesake, working with a team led by James Conant, later president of Harvard and head of government oversight for the U.S.'s atomic bomb program, the Manhattan Project. After a powerful German counterattack in the spring of 1918, the government began frantic production of lewisite in hopes of delivering 3,000 tons of the stuff to be ready for use in Europe the following year. The end of war came just as the first shipment was being prepared. It was dumped into the sea, but not forgotten. Joel A. Vilensky tells the intriguing story of the discovery and development of lewisite and its curious history. During World War II, the United States produced more than 20,000 tons of lewisite, testing it on soldiers and secretly dropping it from airplanes. In the end, the substance was abandoned as a weapon because it was too unstable under most combat conditions. But a weapon once discovered never disappears. It was used by Japan in Manchuria and by Iraq in its war with Iran. The Soviet Union was once a major manufacturer. Strangely enough, although it was developed for lethal purposes, lewisite led to an effective treatment for a rare neurological disease. Chemical weapons in World War I - Wikipedia Although the use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize injure and kill entrenched ... Lewisite - Wikipedia Chemical reactions. The compound is prepared by the addition of arsenic trichloride to acetylene in the presence of a suitable catalyst: AsCl 3 + C 2 H 2 ClCHCHAsCl 2 (Lewisite) Lewisite like other arsenous ... Weaponry: Lewisite -- America's World War I Chemical Weapon HistoryNet Rushed into production in 1918 America's World War I weapon of mass destruction is still in many nations' arsenals. ... 6/12/2006 Gear MHQ. In 1903 a young priest working on his doctoral degree at the Catholic ... COMBAT MilTerms: B - COMBAT Magazine HomePage The emphasis of this educational reference is on words and phrases that appear in published works about war and military service; and amongst this jargon and slang there is no pretense of objectivity or completeness ...
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