Robert Harris - A Higher form of Killing

BW in Korean War 165–166

BW installations 97

BW investment 96–97

BW post-war production 163, 166, 169, 172–173, 175

BW post-war research 154–155, 163, 164, 167–169

BW post-war tests 157–162, 169, 170, 173–174

BW WW2 research 95–96

CBW policy changed 150–151, 166–167

chemical disarmament 219–220, 231–232

chemical rearmament 1986: 235

clandestine use of CBW 204–218

CW attitude during WW2 117, 119

CW production in WW2 117–118, 120

CW used in Vietnam 193–198

DDT material censored 65

Geneva Protocol not ratified 46

Geneva Protocol ratified 231

Geneva Protocol signed 45

humane gas weapon search 189–194

Iraq CW underestimated 242

Japanese BW investigated 75, 76, 78–80

Japanese, fears of prove exaggerated 119–120

Japanese, gas attacks considered 137

Japanese, rice crops attacks planned 100

nerve gas arsenal 184–185, 198–199

nerve gas rumours believed 66

Nixon’s ban on growth of CBW 174–176, 219, 220

obstruction to disarmament inspections 254

radioactive gas development 125–126

rearming begun 50

September 11, 2001 attacks xi

Soviet CW, fears of 138, 222–225

Soviet CW, recent allegations 236–239

Tripartite Agreement 177, 186–187

vulnerability to BW attack, vulnerability to 95–97, 153, 162–163

white phosphorus 124–125

WW1 casualties 32

US Navy 235

USAAF 163, 164, 193, 195

V-weapons 59–60, 62, 64, 84, 126–127

Valentine’s Day Declaration 214

Valley arsenal 115

vectors 166, 168

Venezuelan equine

encephalomyelitis 173, 175, 221, 247

Versailles 44

Victor anti-invasion exercise 116

Victor, Dr Jospeh 156

Vietnam 99, 168, 170, 173, 193–198, 219, 236

Vigo germ warfare factory 77, 97, 104

Virgin Islands 163

Vozrozhdeniya Island 144

Vozrozhdeniye testing site 245

VR 55: 228

VX 187–188, 199, 219, 220, 228, 235, 241, 251

Wansbrough-Jones, Brigadier Owen 106–107, 152–153

War Cabinet 83, 88, no, 112–114, 116, 123

War Research Service 96

Warsaw Pact 226–228

Wasco 250

Washington Treaty 1922: 44, 46

Watson, Colonel 39

Watson, Dr Rex 73

Wehrmacht no

Werwick 32

West Germany 199

Westminster, Duke of 21

Westmoreland, General 197

Weteye bomb 185

White Cross 24 and see tear gas

white phosphorus 124–125

White, George 211–213

Who? Me? bomb 206

Wilhelmshafen 105

Wilson, General 6–7

Wimmer, Professor 60

Winnipeg 160

Winter-Lost 58

Wintex 233

Woods, Donald 69

World Health Organisation 36, 89, 247

World War One

Arras, Battle of 22–23

chemicals total tonnage used 32

first British gas attacks 11–15

first gas attacks 1–4

first phosgene attack 17–19

gas casualties totals 32

germ warfare allegations 74

German offensive 1918: 31–32

growing importance of gas 21–22, 32–33

modern weapons 20–21

mustard gas introduction 24–28

Porton Down 37–41

railway trains used in gas attacks 29–30

Somme, Battle of the 19–20

World War Two

Allies consider anti-crop warfare 98–100

Britain plans to initiate CW to repel German invasion 110–113, 116

British consider initiating CBW in response to V-weapon attacks 126–136

British contingency plan to use Anthrax 105

CBW clandestine use of 89–94, 204–208, 211

CW expected to be used 51, 108–109

CW stock movements 109, 120

CW stock totals 58, 109, 120

CW very nearly used in 107, 137–139

Geneva Protocol, belligerents pledge to abide by 108

Hitler considers using CW 57, 59–60, 62–64

likely effect of CBW on course of 131–136

Normandy landings 125–126

records mostly still closed 86

Wunsdorf 51

Wynne, Greville 149

Yamazaki, Major-General 48

Yekaterinburg 246

Yellow Cross 24 and see mustard gas

yellow fever 169–170, 175

yellow rain 236

Yemen 236

Yom Kippur War 229

Younger, General Allan 70–73, 84

Yperite 28 and see mustard gas

Ypres 19, 24, 29

Ypres, 2nd Battle of 1–4, 6, 10

Zhukov, Marshal 147

zinc cadmium sulphide 161

ROBERT HARRIS was a reporter on the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight programmes before becoming Political Editor of the Observer in 1987, and then a columnist on the Sunday Times . He has written five non-fiction books, including A Higher Form of Killing which was his first book, and three novels. Fatherland (1992) was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel prize, and was followed by Enigma (1995) and Archangel (1998). His novels have been bestsellers worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages. Robert Harris lives in Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby, and their children.

JEREMY PAXMAN has been a reporter ever since he left St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. He began his journalistic career covering the troubles in Northern Ireland. After three years in Belfast, he moved to London, from whence assignments took him all over the world. He began presenting Newsnight in 1989. He is also familiar to radio and television audiences through University Challenge and Start the Week and has written widely for newspapers and magazines. A Higher Form of Killing was the first of five books he has produced to date. His most recent bestseller is The English: Portrait of a People.

Fatherland

Enigma

Archangel

Good and Faithful Servant

Selling Hitler

The Making of Neil Kinnock

Gotcha!

Through the Volcanoes

Friends in High Places

Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life (editor)

The English

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