A Higher Form of Killing

This figure was the British and American estimate. The Soviet estimate was 250,000 tons, See Jeremy Paxman and Richard Harris, A Higher Form of Killing The Secret Story of Chemical Warfare, New York Hill 8c Wang (1982). 

Harris, R., Paxman, J. (2002). A Higher Form of Killing The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare. Random House, New York. 

R. Harris and J. Paxman, "A Higher Form of Killing", Triad/Paladin - Granada,... 

Such emotional language was foreign to Fritz Flaber s mind. He viewed war, and gas in particular, with the cool eye of the technocrat. He did not, as two British writers later claimed, call chemical weapons a higher form of killing, hut he did think of gas warfare as an intellectual challenge, or an intricate game. Conventional warfare was like checkers, he wrote to the industri-... 

Harris. R. and Paxman, J., 1982. A Higher Form of Killing, Noonday Press, New York, p. 70. Karesh. W.B.. Cook, R.A., Bennett, E.L., Newcomb, J., 2005. Wildlife trade and global disease emergence, Emerg. Infect. Dis. [serial on the Internet], available at http //www. 

In no future war will the military be able to ignore poison gas. It is a higher form of killing (Haber, 1919). 

Harris R and Paxman J (1982). A Higher Form of Killing, p. 199. London, UK Chatto and Windus. 

A Higher Form of Killing deserves the widest possible distribution, for I am convinced it can add immeasurably to the growing weight of political opinion determined to put an end, through non-violence, to the incredible... 

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