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Decontamination (from gases, chemicals, etc.)

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• Chemical warfare
• Civil defense
• Contamination (Technology)
• Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use

• Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2008), ed. by Shirley D. Tuorinsky (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1997), ed. by Frederick R. Sidell, Ernest T. Takafuji, and David R. Franz
  • PDF files (except for Chapter 20) at Borden Institute
  • Chapter 20: PDF at dead-planet.net
• The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field (Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959), by Leo P. Brophy, Wyndham D. Miles, and Rexmond C. Cochrane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War, by Victor Lefebure (Gutenberg text)

• The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program (2001), by Stephen Franklin Burgess and Helen E. Purkitt (PDF at af.edu)

• Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants (May 2003), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (illustrated HTM and PDF files at fas.org)
• Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan, Iraq's Final Offensive: A Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (Washington: GPO, 1988), by Peter Galbraith and Chris Van Hollen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan, Iraq's Final Offensive: A Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (Washington: GPO, 1988), by Peter Galbraith and Chris Van Hollen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War Next Time: Countering Rogue States and Terrorists Armed with Chemical and Biological Weapons (second edition, 2004), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jim A. Davis
  • PDF files at af.mil
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation (Washington: Barnes Review, c2011), by Santiago Alvarez, contrib. by Pierre Marais (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• The 1st Division at Ansauville, January-April 1918, by Rexmond C. Cochrane (HTML at US Army CMH)
• The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War, by Victor Lefebure (Gutenberg text)
• "Shall America Remain the Only Important Country at the Mercy of the German Chemists?" Address by Joseph H. Choate, Jr., Counsel, the Chemical Foundation, at 21st Annual Meeting of the National Civic Federation (New York: Chemical Foundation, 1921), by Joseph Hodges Choate (rotated page images at HathiTrust)

• Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians (Cambrige, MA and Washington: Physicians for Human Rights, 2012), by Richard Sollom and Holly Atkinson (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)

• Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1997), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1996, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1997), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1996, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Dioxin Treatment Technologies (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals in Combat (reprint; Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2003), by Brooks E. Kleber and Dale Birdsell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals in Combat (reprint; Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2003), by Brooks E. Kleber and Dale Birdsell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan, Iraq's Final Offensive: A Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (Washington: GPO, 1988), by Peter Galbraith and Chris Van Hollen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intelligence Update: Chemical Warfare Agent Issues During the Persian Gulf War (2002), by Persian Gulf War Illnesses Task Force and United States Central Intelligence Agency (PDF at hsdl.org)
• Adequacy of the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program: Nerve Agents, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (HTML and page images at NAP)

• U. S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and Their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War, by Donald W. Riegle (HTML with commentary at gulfweb.org)

• The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War, by Victor Lefebure (Gutenberg text)

• The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing For War (reprint; Washington: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 2004), by Leo P. Brophy and George J. B. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field (Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959), by Leo P. Brophy, Wyndham D. Miles, and Rexmond C. Cochrane (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Front Line 1940-41: The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (1942, with added commentary by the transcriber), by Great Britain Ministry of Home Security (illustraed HTML with commentary in the UK)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• National Response Framework (second edition, 2013; with supplementary materials), by United States Department of Homeland Security (PDF files with commentary at fema.gov)

• National Strategy for Homeland Security (July 2002), by United States Office of Homeland Security (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov)
• The United States Citizens Defense Corps (1942), by United States Office of Civil Defense
  • embedded PDF at smu.edu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• Study for Alameda County 911 (ca. 1974), by Scott W. Hovey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • another edition, without appendix; PDF at ncjrs.gov

More items available under broader and related terms at left.