The Invention of Ecocide : Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ONE: Introduction -- TWO: An Etymology of Ecocide -- THREE: Agent Orange before Vietnam -- FOUR: Gadgets and Guerrillas -- FIVE: Herbicidal Warfare -- SIX: Science, Ethics, and Dissent -- SEVEN: Surveying a Catastrophe -- EIGHT: Against Protocol -- NINE: Conclusion: Ecocide and International Security -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.

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