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Chemical warfare secrets almost forgotten : a personal story of medical testing of Army volunteers with incapacitating chemical agents during the Cold War (1955-1975)

James S. Ketchum (Author)
ISBN 1424300800, ISBN 9781424300808
Alexander Shulgin (Author of introduction, etc.)
publication
[Tehachapi, CA] : [James S. Ketchum], 2006
iv, 360 p.
by James S. Ketchum, with a foreword by Alexander Shulgin
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Non-fiction literature, Contains biographical information
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James S. Ketchum, Chemical warfare--United States--History., Chemical weapons--History., Cold War--Chemical warfare., Psychotropic drugs--Testing., CW--chemicals--experiments--history--Cold War--USA, Edgewood Arsenal (Md.), US Army Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Research and Development Laboratories.
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Table of Contents

Cold War: chemical call to arms -- Incapacitating the enemy : strange fruit and stray smoke -- Hello, Edgewood Arsenal! -- Human guinea pigs--Not! -- Who's right? The ethics of testing poisons in people -- An interesting drug to start with -- BZ: tiny baseball games and DC-3's on a padded floor -- LSD: the other acid test -- Working out the kinks -- Busy as a bee on a dose of BZ -- More breeds than at a dog show -- Taming the fractious belladonnoids -- Altered states in fish tanks and field tests -- Name your poison: safety first and always -- Project Dork: soldiering on BZ in the desert -- Rummaging through the closet -- Post-doc with Pribram -- Edgewood again: hoping for déjà vu -- Good and bad vibrations without and within -- Rearranging the deck chairs -- Final days at Edgewood -- CIA connections: now you see them, now you don't -- On into the 70s and 80s -- To the end of the century and beyond -- Belated alarms: what have we done? -- Chemical warfare today: a reality check -- Appendix (Introduction, Methods and design, Results by drug category, Volunteer statistics, Follow-up studies, The Nuremberg Code, Congressional chemical warfare objectives (1950), Edgewood Arsenal personnel (1961-1971), Sympton checklist form, Behavior checklist form, List of references, Acknowledgements).

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Contributor and role
James S. Ketchum (Author)
Classification
358/.34/09 (DDC Classification)
Contributor and role
Alexander Shulgin (Author of introduction, etc.)
Identifier
ISBN 1424300800, ISBN 9781424300808
Title resource
Chemical warfare secrets almost forgotten : a personal story of medical testing of Army volunteers with incapacitating chemical agents during the Cold War (1955-1975)
Creative responsibility statement
by James S. Ketchum, with a foreword by Alexander Shulgin
publication
[Tehachapi, CA] : [James S. Ketchum], 2006
Extent
iv, 360 p.
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-350).
dimensions
28 cm.
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ill.
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Illustrations
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10333791

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