Chemical Defence Research Development

Director of Chemical Defence Research Development(Brit) depth charge thrower Design Dept(Brit)... 

Sim, V.M. (1956). Effect on pupil size of exposure to GB vapour. Porton Technical Paper 531. Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Directorate of Chemical Defence Research and Development, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

Burck and Roweree suspect that the information gathered by intelligence agencies may be inherently limited. National Technical Means (NTM), which provides the bulk of their information , may monitor evidence of anti-chemical defences, exercises and delivery systems - the components of a chemical warfare capability that are the least able to be concealed from surveillance. Such evidence, insist Burck and Floweree, is not proof in itself of an offensive programme. Conversely, they contend that NTMs are much less useful in determining the purpose of research and development programmes, or the products of particular production facilities, or the secret... 

Paradoxically, the risk of chemical warfare could even be enhanced by signing the Convention, that is, if nations are lulled into a false sense of security and let their chemical defences lapse. Research and development programmes will have to be preserved to minimise the possibilities of armed forces being surprised by new forms of chemical or biological attack in future battles. Improvements in NBC equipment and training will have to be sustained to raise the demands upon any would-be violator and to offset, at least partially, the consequences of non-compliance by adversaries. Finally, these defensive measures should be complemented throughout the ten years of a Convention by the retention of a eredible deterrent to chemical attack. 

Marzi WB (1989), Development of a new impermeable NBC protective suit for German civil defence, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Protection Against Chemical Warfare Agents, Stockholm, Sweden 11-16 June 1989, pp. 21-24, Swedish Defence Research Establishment, UMEA. 

J. Davidson Pratt, Esq, OBE, MA, BSc, FIC Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Advisory and Chemical Warfare Committees, i August 1916—31 December 1918 Secretary, Chemical Warfare Committee Controller, Chemical Warfare Committee, i January 1919—30 June 1923 Controller, Chemical Warfare Research Department, i July 1923—31 December 1925 Chief Superintendent, Chemical Warfare Research Department, i January 1926—30 September 1928. Davidson Pratt was later promoted to Controller, Chemical Defence Development, in the MoS. 

An estimated 450 scientific experts at the Army Gas Protection Laboratory Heeresgasschutzlaboratorium) in Berlin-Spandau, officially tasked with chemical defence, synthesized thousands of chemical compounds to see whether any of them could be developed into warfare agents, performed tests on animals and humans, established collaborative networks and secret contracts with private companies, including IG Farben, conducted extensive htera-mre reviews, and secured the support of the State Patent Office, yet up until the mid 1930s no major advances had been made. In the end, the discovery of the first major new warfare agent since the First World War was largely unrelated to the allocation of government resources or to the provision of military expertise it resulted from research into new synthetic pesticides. 

B, Former PRO papers relating to the Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development (ACSRTD), and the Chemical Defence Advisory Board of the ACSRTD, 1947 to 1966... 

Barton, W.H., "Research, Development and Training in Chemical and Biological Defence Within the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces", DND Publication Catalogue No. D2-79/1989E, Canadian Publishing Centre, Ottawa, Canada. 31 December 1988. 

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