Six-Legged Soldiers
Using Insects as Weapons of War
Paperback | 3 October 2010
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Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Award-winning science writer Jeffrey A. Lockwood begins with the development of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and explores the role of insect-borne disease in changing the course of major battles, ranging from Napoleon's military campaigns to the trenches of World War I. He explores the horrific programs of insect warfare during World War II: airplanes dropping plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of hungry beetles to destroy crops, and prison camps staffed by doctors testing disease-carrying lice on inmates. The Cold War saw secret government operations involving the mass release of specially developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American public--along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. Lockwood reveals how easy it would be to use of
insects in warfare and terrorism today: In 1989, domestic ecoterrorists extorted government officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.
A remarkable story of human ingenuity--and brutality--Six-Legged Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.
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ISBN: 9780199733538
ISBN-10: 0199733538
Published: 3rd October 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 402
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 27.5 x 15.5 x 3
Weight (kg): 0.65
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- Non-FictionWarfare & DefenceWeapons & EquipmentChemical & Biological Weapons
- Non-FictionNature & The Natural WorldWildlife in GeneralButterflies, Other Insects & Spiders
- Non-FictionScienceBiology, Life SciencesZoology & Animal SciencesZoology & InvertebratesInsects & Entomology
- Non-FictionEngineering & TechnologyOther Technologies & Applied SciencesMilitary Engineering