Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot Control Agents in Combat

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own.

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War is a comprehensive and thoroughly fascinating examination of riot-control agents during the Vietnam War.

D. Hank Ellison has served in the US Army as an enlisted infantry soldier and a commissioned officer in the Chemical Corps, responsible for nuclear, biological, and chemical defense for infantry and artillery battalions. He is a hazardous materials instructor for Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice.