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  1. Weapons of War (1995 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 60 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A documentary study of weapons developed by scientists and engineeers during World War 2. Using archival footage, looks at radar, Hobart’s funnies, the ‘bouncing bomb’, the V1 and V2 missiles, the...

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  2. Countdown to Zero (2011)

    Director
    Lucy Walker
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

    Leading politicians and political analysts including Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Valerie Plame Wilson, Mikhail Gorbachev and Zbigniew Brzezinski discuss the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the 21st century...

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  3. Command and Control of Nuclear Weapons, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Roger Penfound
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    The command and control of nuclear weapons systems in the USA has been at the centre of much debate about its ability to withstand a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Looks at some of the criticisms of the current...

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  4. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Debate Continues (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Roger Penfound
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTSRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Discusses the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 and evaluates what lessons have been learnt to aid the understanding of nuclear weapons in society. Contrasts the size of the...

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  5. Secret Science: Chemical and Biological Weapons (2016)

    Director
    Tim Usborne
    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Documentary film about Porton Down, the British military and scientific base that specialises in chemical and biological warfare and the fight against global terrorism. The top-secret British military unit...

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  6. Sirus Project, The: Towards a Determination of Which Weapons Cause ‘Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering’ (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 2000 sale: Sfr20.00 (+p&p)

    The SirUS Project relates to the part of international humanitarian law that governs the means and methods of warfare. The project proposes that the well-documented effects of legitimate and conventional...

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  7. Gas Attack (2002)

    Subject
    History; Military Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 164 minutes), £12.99

    This programme traces the history of gas and chemical weapons in the First and Second World Wars.

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  8. Weapons: A Battle for Humanity (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: Sfr30.00 (+p&p)

    Shows the suffering that has been caused by specific types of weapons, what has been done in the past to ban such weapons as dum-dum bullets and poison gas, and what must still be done through international...

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  9. Ecocide: A Strategy of War (1981 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale (video only), Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    During the war in Vietnam, American forces used chemicals to destroy the forests and fields and so combat the National Liberation Front. Dr E W Pfeiffer, an American zoologist, made a special study of the...

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  10. Germ Genie, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Baillie
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 149.00 (+p&p) (Films for the Humanities and Sciences- NTSC version only) 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) (BBC) 1998 sale: US$

    The genetic engineering revolution makes it possible to create designer germ weapons that could devastate populations by spreading deadly diseases against which there may be no defence. Despite the efforts...

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