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1) Lethal agent
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novel volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the US. ISIS recruits a Mexican...
Author
Series
Foul Lady Fortune duet volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
544 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course of action after Orion was taken and his memories of Rosalind wiped. Though their marriage might have been a sham, his absence hurts her more than any physical wound. She won't rest until she gets him back. But with...
3) White Needle
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
Syrian rebels have gotten their hands on a White Needle, or stolen chemical weapon, and plan to use it on an unknown target. Only Shadow Squadron has the talent and technology to locate and neutralize the missile before it's launched.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina's victory in the Falkland's War thanks to their development of "psychopigments." Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from...
5) The rock
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI chemical weapons expert joins forces with a former British spy to rescue the hostages held on Alcatraz island by a group of Marines who have missiles loaded with poison gas.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Field takes readers on a decades-long journey through the history of things that go boom. From the early days of black powder to today's modern plastic explosives, he details now just the who, when, and why, but also the how. He explains how explosives work on a molecular scale, and gives readers a basic understanding of the chemistry that makes them possible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a Syrian palace, the presidents of Russia and Syria undertake a clandestine meeting. No staff or advisors are permitted in the room. No records are kept. By necessity, however, there are two witnesses: the interpreters. The Russian, Ludmilla Kravchuk, returns to her hotel room burdened by what she has heard. When her Syrian counterpart is murdered before her eyes, Kravchuk fears she is next and goes into hiding in Syria. The CIA gets word of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the issues of biological and chemical warfare, including its historical background leading up to its current and future impact on society. The Hague Peace Conventions, the Geneva Protocol, and the Chemical Weapons Convention are discussed in detail. Programs that protect the United States against biological or chemical attack are also introduced.
11) Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought with poison gas, torpedoes killing civilians, and aerial bombardment. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, historian Diana Preston links...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
95, 93 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phantom Sun: When an unidentified drone crashes in Antarctica, and the research station nearby stops communicating, Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron are sent to investigate but their job is complicated by a Russian special forces team, and an officer of Phantom Cell who is more interested in the device than the safety of the American scientists.
White needle: Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron have been assigned to recover a chemical weapon that...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 535 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the actions of the "Hellfire Battalion," a group of American engineers who were trained in gas warfare and were sent to the front lines in France to launch multiple assaults against the Germans.