Word War

Reviewing the record, I was again awed by the scope of the defendants knowledge. Within the plants, duties were so well understood that when, on September 3, war broke out with Britain and France, the Vermittlungstelle Wehrmacht needed only a simple telegram to the technical committee stating that all plants were "to switch at once to the production outlined in the mobilization program." This order did not even mention the word war. 

Some may argue that it was the existence of the Geneva Convention that prevented chemical weapon use in the Second Word War but the size of the stockpiles in various countries does not really support this argument. When one looks at the size of the US and USSR stockpiles declared under the Chemical Weapons Convention 1997, it becomes apparent that very large quantities were considered necessary to be militarily effective. There is such a significant logistic burden in deploying such stocks that any commander would like to be confident about the outcome. This may be another reason why chemicals were not used. 

Science of Manchuria (Tairiku-Kagakuin), and in 1953, eight years after the end of the Word War II, returned to his home country. 1954-1959 Professor at Nagoya University Also see -> polarography. 

Aside from the schizonticidal agents, a number of compounds have been developed after Word War II, which interferes with the disease process at a different level. Dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors, like proguanil and pyrimethamine, block the biosynthesis of purine and pyrimidine, and therefore also the parasite s DNA replication. Different sulfonamide drugs, e.g. sulfadoxine and sulfameth-oxypyridazine, exert a similar mechanism of action. 

Shortly after Word War II, the American synthetic rubber industry began production of cold SBR, from which, it was found, superior tire rubber, especially as regards tread wear, could be prepared. Subsequent studies showed that the reduction in temperature from 50 to 5°C had little or no effect on the microstructure of the polydiene units (cis-1,4 versus trans-1,4 versus 1,2), or on the comonomer composition, but did exert a marked influence on the molecular weight distribution (Table VI). It was also shown [70] that the... 

Some years after Word War 11, the USA, the Soviet Union and Western Europe accounted for 90% of the world steel production. In 1981, the total for these three regions had decreased to 50%. Asian countries had become big producers. During the period 1990-93, Japan was the biggest steel producer in the world and China was third. In the year 2000 China and Japan were second and third, after the European Union as shown in Table 8.6. 

The number of chemicals adequately meeting these criteria is relatively small. Although over 40 different compounds were used during the First Word War, few of these proved really effective. Of the hundreds of compounds tested since 1915, only a tiny percentage have proved to have any military significance. Table 1.1 lists the main chemical warfare agents, and those to which reference will most frequently be made in this study. 

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