Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia Free Audiobook Download by Dan Kaszeta

Dan Kaszeta has been on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he has watched U.S. military personnel die after sniffing pesticide and drinking hand sanitizer. His report on nerve agents began in 2009, when he was working with a group of defector doctors who had treated victims of a Russian gas attack in Syria.

One of the greatest, most terrifying weapons of our time, nerve agents kill by crippling the central nervous system. Since their inception in World War I by a German chemist, these lethal chemical compounds have been used in battle as both deadly weapons and to "pacify" whole populations. Nerve gases were famously employed against the Allies during World War II when they were lobbed through the air on what soon became known as "poisonous darts."

Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia is a book written by Dan Kaszeta. He was one of the first people on the scene at the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack and has studied toxicology ever since. The history of nerve agents is told in this book from their discovery, through their use during World War II, to more modern times with specific examples including the Tokyo subway attack, CIA and KGB use of chemical weapons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

This book by Dan Kaszeta explores the history of nerve agents and their role in World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and present-day international politics. It also examines the past, present, and future of these weapons of mass destruction as they've been used by Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, China, and others.

A new thriller from the author of "Killing Pablo", this work is based on the largest chemical weapons discovery in history. The discovery of a large quantity of toxic chemical agents, the production of which was supervised by the Nazis and their allies during World War II, has never been fully explained. Until now. Dan Kaszeta reveals for the first time how these nerve agents were produced, transported and stored throughout Europe -- until Russia's security service seized them in an infamous incident-and how they were later used against a senior KGB defector living under U.S. protection named Yuri Stoyanov.

Dan Kaszeta, a former agent of the United States Secret Service and expert in neurotoxicology, draws upon his knowledge to provide a comprehensive history of how nerve agents have been used throughout the world. He begins with Germany's pursuit of chemical weapons during World War II. He then breaks down Putin's invasion into Ukraine, detailing Russia's development and use of these weapons and providing insight into what they can do to an individual.