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Holding Their Breath
2023
Overview
Holding Their Breath uncovers
just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to
crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during
World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not
release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the
looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the
actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their
populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military
alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and
sovereignty.
The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the
interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban,
to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war.
M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in
multinational archives and historical literature, that although
poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II,
experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy
to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare
as obsolete or taboo.
Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if
not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various
reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as
what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these
potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical
weapons use in a new way.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
1501768360, 9781501768361, 1501768379, 9781501768378, 9781501768385, 1501768387
