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| 21st Century U.S. Army Field Manuals: Potential Military Chemical and Biological Agents and Compounds, FM 3-11.9 (Ringbound) | 
 enlarge | Author: U.s. Army
Publisher: Progressive Management
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.95
Media: Ring-bound
Pages: 294
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 10.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 1422016323
EAN: 9781422016329
ASIN: 1422016323
Publication Date: March 15, 2008
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Product Description
This ringbound book provides a reproduction of the U.S. Army Field Manual, Potential Military Chemical and Biological Agents and Compounds, FM 3-11.9. This FM has a wealth of technical information about chemical and biological agents, constituting an up-to-date encyclopedia of these important accident and terror. Contents include: background, threat, militarily significant aspects of toxic chemical agents, biological agents, and toxic industrial agents; chemical warfare agents and their properties, toxicity-related terms, choking agents, nerve agents, blood agents, blister agents, incapacitating agents, chemical warfare agent precursors, military chemical compounds, riot control agents, respiratory irritants, obsolete riot control agents, smokes, obscurants, incendiaries, biological agents, bacterial, rickettsiae, viral, toxins, toxic industrial chemicals, background, much more. This document provides commanders and staffs with general information and technical data concerning chemical/biological (CB) agents and other compounds of military interest such as toxic industrial chemicals (TIC). It explains the use; classification; and physical, chemical, and physiological properties of these agents and compounds. Users of this manual are nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC)/chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) staff officers, NBC noncommissioned officers (NCOs), staff weather officers (SWOs), NBC medical defense officers, medical readiness officers, medical intelligence officers, field medical treatment officers, and others involved in planning battlefield operations in an NBC environment. This publication provides a technical reference for CB agents and related compounds. The technical information furnished provides data that can be used to support operational assessments based on intelligence preparation of the battlespace (IPB). The audience for this publication is NBC/CBR staff personnel and commanders tasked with planning, preparing for, and conducting military operations. Chapter I briefly addresses the threat and the significant military aspects of chemical and biological agents and TIC. Chapter II provides information on chemical agents that might be encountered in the field. It discusses chemical agent physical characteristics and toxicity data of choking, nerve, blood, blister, and incapacitating agents. Military Chemical Compounds and Their Properties - Chapter III discusses military chemical compounds such as the riot control agents (RCAs). It provides physical and chemical characteristics and toxicity data for military chemical compounds. Biological Agents and Their Properties - Chapter IV addresses general characteristics of biological agents (including toxins) and provides a summary of selected antipersonnel agents that may be employed in weapons systems. Chapter V - Toxic Industrial Chemicals and Their Properties - Chapter V addresses TIC and a summary of available TIC information sources.
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