Review of international technologies for destruction of recovered chemical warfare materiel / Committee on Review and Evaluation of International Technologies for the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Review and Evaluation of International Technologies for the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel.

National Academies Press (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical warfare.

Chemical weapons disposal.

Chemical agents (Munitions).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 110 pages) : illustrations, charts

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Destruction of recovered chemical warfare materiel

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy , provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a wholly recognisable and tender account of their own coming-to-maturity and of the preciousness and the hardships of the life of the poor in pre-World War II Britain. But he was far more than narrator of a neglected class. Hoggart was also a public figure of extraordinary energy and eminence. He dominated the single most important Royal Commission on broadcasting, and single-handedly he is remembered as clinching for the defence the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover , after which he became a leading officer and defender of the international agency protecting the culture of the very world, UNESCO. This is the first biography of this amazing man. It seeks to tie together in a single narrative life and work, to settle Hoggart in the great happiness of a fulfilled family life and in the astonishing achievements of his public and professional career, considering each of his books in detail, and following him through the long and hard labours of his different public and academic offices. Fred Inglis tells this gripping tale of a figure of great significance to anyone who cherishes the stuff of culture, and tells it vividly and directly. It is a tale of a good man with which to edify the present, and to teach us of all that now threatens our best national (and international) forms of expression: our art, our culture, ourselves.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""2 Issues Bearing on Sites Containing Large Amounts of Buried Chemical Weapons Materiel""; ""3 Evaluation Factors for International Destruction Technologies""; ""4 Tier 1 International Munitions Processing Technologies""; ""5 Tier 1 International Agent-Only Processing Technologies""; ""6 Tier 2 International Technologies for Munitions and Agent-Only Processing""

""7 Assessing Large Burial Sites and Accessing Chemical Warfare Materiel"" ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Tables Illustrative of a Variety of Non-Stockpile Items""; ""Appendix B Tier 1 Munitions Processing Evaluation Subfactor Comparative Tables""; ""Appendix C Tier 1 Agent-Only Processing Evaluation Subfactor Comparative Tables""; ""Appendix D Committee Meetings and Other Activities""; ""Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610742370

9780309180511

0309180511

9781280742378

1280742372

9780309660549

0309660548

OCLC:

76784171