Chemical Reactions

Neil Gussman, in Books & Culture, January/February 2007, pages 30-31, reviews two books on the history of chemical warfare, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda, by Jonathan B. Tucker, and Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints, by Frederic J. Brown. If you are interested in chemical warfare, then this article is a great introduction to these two books. I found the explanation interesting of why chemical weapons were not used in World War II like they were in World War I and why those reasons don’t apply to terrorists today. The restraint military leaders have shown since WWI are not shared by global terrorists, making a chemical terrorist attack much more likely than a military chemical attack. We need to find a new way to prevent the use of chemical and nuclear weapons since restraint or Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) does not exist for terrorists.

You can read the whole article at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/001/20.30.html