Poisons and Pestilence Podcast

20/01/2024

19/12/2023

Latest episode is out. Before the campaign to stop killer robots, there was a campaign to ban chemical weapons

https://poisonsandpestilence.podbean.com/e/20-bonus-episode-no-fire-no-thunder-with-alastair-hay/

23/11/2023

60 seconds · Clipped by Brett Edwards · Original video "19 Bonus Episode: Dark Power with Karl Dewey" by Brett Edwards

23/11/2023

Latest Episode: A history of Russian poison assassination with Karl Dewey

Karl Dewey (2022) Poisonous affairs: Russia’s evolving use of poisons in targeted killings https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/poisonous-affairs-russias-evolving-use-of-poisons-in-targeted-kil https://twitter.com/KarlDewey1

18/11/2023

14/11/2023

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zxcns-14fab83

A history of the foundation of the French BW programme. You can find a list of Etienne's publications here: https://irfu.cea.fr/Pisp/etienne.aucouturier/

13/11/2023

https://youtube.com/shorts/cZg10bcQAYg?si=z2DyaxLLjUy7atLV

09/11/2023

49 seconds · Clipped by Brett Edwards · Original video "The Retort EPISODE 1 A history of chemical and biological disarmament" by Brett Edwards

08/11/2023

05/11/2023

Malcolm Gladwell is a bestselling author and host of the Revisionist History podcast. His latest book, “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Long...

01/11/2023

I published my new episode 17 I’m all about that basilisk, please check it out
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-t9764-14e761c

31/10/2023

The latest episode is out !

In this episode, we examine the western gunpowder revolution and consider ideas for poison weapons which were outlined at this time in numerous military manuals. I am very grateful for the input from: the stupendous Seth Caru, the amazing Ana Roessing, the unbelievable Una Jacob, the awe-inspiring A...

28/10/2023

So I have finally finished the next episode of poisons and pestilence.

This one has been a bit of an adventure - and is long overdue.

We will be looking at the horrific daydreams of weapon designers in Europe from the 14th- 17th centuries.

This is then a good time to catch up on the last episode.

Out next week.. available on all players

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iquec-13fdadb

01/10/2023

A depiction of an idea for a Chinese gunpowder weapon. Which appears in manuscripts for several hundred years after the 10th century..

A History of Biological and Chemical Warfare

17/08/2023

In this episode we examine preparations by the US in the advent of Operation Desert Storm (2003) for dealing with what was believed at the time to have been a large Iraqi CBW capability- with Al Mauroni. Further reading: A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (2007) https://ww...

18/05/2023

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1658549214933032961.html

: I've got stuff to do. So obviously you are getting a thread on 19th and early 20th century biological weapon scifi this evening. Most of these books are well over 100 years old. And yet,...…

06/02/2023

1915 sketch of ppe equipment in German chemical weapon production. Miner and deep sea diver steam-punk vibes

A History of Biological and Chemical Warfare

01/02/2023

You can check out Glenn's book here: Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980 - Glenn Cross - Google Books We didn't have time to cover the smaller and largely exploratory BW aspect of this programme but hopefully we will in s future episode. Audio clip: https://www.youtube.com/...

20/01/2023

From The Retort

Nicholas G. Evans, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. A 2020-2023 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar, h...

09/12/2022

Weird fact. It is commonly claimed that the first use of gunpowder smoke screens was in Macau in 1622. Where burning damp gunpowder was used to screen an amphibious assault by the Portuguese. This is an odd claim. A thread.

“Weird fact. It is commonly claimed that the first use of gunpowder smoke screens was in Macau in 1622. Where burning damp gunpowder was used to screen an amphibious assault by the Portuguese. This is an odd claim. A thread.”

23/11/2022

The spread of gunpowder weapons. From China and Back again.. Based on a reading of Chase 2003.

17/11/2022

New to the BWC? Prepping for the Rev Con and need a refresher? We've got you covered with this video series

This project is a joint collaboration between scholars associated with the LMU Biological Security Research Centre. You can find more info on the research wh...

16/11/2022

02/11/2022

https://twitter.com/bwiedwards/status/1587840773642395650?t=Rf5Lxh6bR6UBLS_eS3sXoQ&s=19

“The Poisons and Pestilence Podcast. Ranked #223 history podcast in Great Britain. Just behind the 'History of Coffee' podcast. The second they open an 'over-punned esoterica' category I am golden.”

31/10/2022

Happy Monday! My biological and chemical
warfare podcast has now reached 7,000 listens.
In celebration I will randomly select one person
who retweets/shares this to receive a nerdy T-shirt.
https://poisonsandpestilence.podbean.com/

“Happy Monday! My biological and chemical warfare podcast has now reached 7,000 listens. In celebration I will randomly select one person who retweets this to receive a nerdy T-shirt. https://t.co/lkJNRAEa3q”

28/10/2022

Just in time for night. An episode
on the history of gunpowder - and early
attempts to make poisoned gunpowder
weapons in ancient China.

Available here and on all other podcast players

https://poisonsandpestilence.podbean.
com/e/11-great-balls-of-fire/

13/09/2022

Introduction to a new sister project on biological and chemical warfare.

https://youtu.be/mhwiSPrSPNQ

This project is a joint collaboration between scholars associated with the LMU Biological Security Research Centre. You can find more info on the research wh...

31/07/2022

https://youtu.be/siDs7_nZpfg

Brett Edwards has a wide range of interests at the interface of technology, governance and security. He is currently involved in a number of projects examini...

29/07/2022

Just read there was a good 200 year period where no human hand touched an intact medieval English longbow arrow - untill the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982.

For those centuries we just had arrowheads and pictures and assumed that would be as close as we would ever get again.

I don't have the expertise to even work out how to know if this is true. But it comes from 'War at Sea' Delgaro.

06/06/2022

During World War II, the Polish resistance movement used chemical and biological weapons (CBW) against the Third Reich. The use of CBW against the Third Reich most likely originated in a secret Polish biological-weapons program, which existed in the 1930s and went underground after the September 193...