«Compelling... the authors make clear why governments have shrouded such weapon programmes in even more secrecy than their nuclear work.»

Financial Times

«An absorbing and unsettling history, an exhaustive exploration of a little-known but potentially apocalyptic aspect of warfare, the whole thing carrying the punch of Armageddon. It reminds us that the world could end not with a nuclear bang but in whimpers of fevered agony.»

Chicago Sun-Times

«The best account of gas and germ warfare available for the lay reader»

Washington Post