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• catalog abstract "Describes the massive Soviet Cold War effort to manufacture, stockpile, and deploy biological weapons. Publisher description: For fifty years, while the world stood in terror of a nuclear war, Russian scientists hidden in heavily guarded secret cities refined and stockpiled a new kind of weapon of mass destruction--an invisible weapon that would strike in silence and could not be traced. It would leave hundreds of thousands dead in its wake and would continue to spread devastation long after its release. The scientists were bioweaponeers, working to perfect the tools of a biological Armageddon. They called it their Manhattan Project. It was the deadliest and darkest secret of the cold war. What you are about to read has never before been made public. Ken Alibek began his career as a doctor wanting to save lives and ended up running the Soviet biological weapons program--a secret military empire masquerading as a pharmaceutical company. At its peak, the program employed sixty thousand people at over one hundred facilities. Seven reserve mobilization plants were on permanent standby, ready to produce hundreds of tons of plague, anthrax, smallpox, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, to name only a few of the toxic agents bred in Soviet labs. Almost every government ministry was implicated, including the Academy of Sciences and the KGB. Biohazard is a terrifying, fast-paced account of tests and leaks, accidents and disasters in the labs, KGB threats and assassinations. The book is full of revelations--evidence of biowarfare programs in Cuba and India, actual deployments at Stalingrad and in Afghanistan, experiments with mood-altering agents, a contingency plan to attack major American cities, and the true story behind the mysterious anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk. But beyond these is a twisted world of lies and mirrors, and the riveting parable of the greatest perversion of science in history. No one knows the actual capabilities of biological weapons better than Dr. Alibek. Many of the scientists who worked with him have been lured away from low-paying Russian labs to rogue regimes and terrorist groups around the world. In our lifetime, we will most likely see a terrorist attack using biological weapons on an American city. Biohazard tells us--in chilling detail--what to expect and what we can do. Not since Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon has there been such a book--a report from inside the belly of the beast.".
• catalog contributor b11165077.
• catalog contributor b11165078.
• catalog created "c1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
• catalog description "Describes the massive Soviet Cold War effort to manufacture, stockpile, and deploy biological weapons.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Many of the scientists who worked with him have been lured away from low-paying Russian labs to rogue regimes and terrorist groups around the world. In our lifetime, we will most likely see a terrorist attack using biological weapons on an American city. Biohazard tells us--in chilling detail--what to expect and what we can do. Not since Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon has there been such a book--a report from inside the belly of the beast.".
• catalog description "Map: Soviet biological warfare installations -- Military medicine : Army headquarters ; Rebirth island ; Military medicine ; The enzyme project -- Biohazard : Lab work ; Building 107 ; Accident at Sverdlovsk ; Progress ; Smallpox ; Vector -- Secrets and lies : The Institute of Ultra-Pure Biopreparations ; Bonfire ; The first main directorate ; Inside the Kremlin ; Visitors ; Three days -- Fortress America : Fort Detrick ; Communist prospekt ; Debriefing ; Buyers and sellers ; Biodefense -- Appendixes : 1. Chart of Soviet biological warfare system 2. Soviet biological warfare system.".
• catalog description "Publisher description: For fifty years, while the world stood in terror of a nuclear war, Russian scientists hidden in heavily guarded secret cities refined and stockpiled a new kind of weapon of mass destruction--an invisible weapon that would strike in silence and could not be traced. It would leave hundreds of thousands dead in its wake and would continue to spread devastation long after its release. The scientists were bioweaponeers, working to perfect the tools of a biological Armageddon. They called it their Manhattan Project. It was the deadliest and darkest secret of the cold war. What you are about to read has never before been made public. Ken Alibek began his career as a doctor wanting to save lives and ended up running the Soviet biological weapons program--a secret military empire masquerading as a pharmaceutical company. At its peak, the program employed sixty thousand people at over one hundred facilities. ".
• catalog description "Seven reserve mobilization plants were on permanent standby, ready to produce hundreds of tons of plague, anthrax, smallpox, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, to name only a few of the toxic agents bred in Soviet labs. Almost every government ministry was implicated, including the Academy of Sciences and the KGB. Biohazard is a terrifying, fast-paced account of tests and leaks, accidents and disasters in the labs, KGB threats and assassinations. The book is full of revelations--evidence of biowarfare programs in Cuba and India, actual deployments at Stalingrad and in Afghanistan, experiments with mood-altering agents, a contingency plan to attack major American cities, and the true story behind the mysterious anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk. But beyond these is a twisted world of lies and mirrors, and the riveting parable of the greatest perversion of science in history. No one knows the actual capabilities of biological weapons better than Dr. Alibek. ".
• catalog extent "xi, 319 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Biohazard.".
• catalog identifier "0375502319 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0385334966 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Biohazard.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
• catalog relation "Biohazard.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
• catalog spatial "USSR.".
• catalog subject "1999 F-646".
• catalog subject "358/.3882/0947 21".
• catalog subject "Biological Warfare USSR.".
• catalog subject "Biological weapons Soviet Union.".
• catalog subject "UG 447.8 A398b 1999".
• catalog subject "UG447.8 .A45 1998".
• catalog tableOfContents "Map: Soviet biological warfare installations -- Military medicine : Army headquarters ; Rebirth island ; Military medicine ; The enzyme project -- Biohazard : Lab work ; Building 107 ; Accident at Sverdlovsk ; Progress ; Smallpox ; Vector -- Secrets and lies : The Institute of Ultra-Pure Biopreparations ; Bonfire ; The first main directorate ; Inside the Kremlin ; Visitors ; Three days -- Fortress America : Fort Detrick ; Communist prospekt ; Debriefing ; Buyers and sellers ; Biodefense -- Appendixes : 1. Chart of Soviet biological warfare system 2. Soviet biological warfare system.".
• catalog title "Biohazard : the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the world, told from the inside by the man who ran it / Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman.".
• catalog type "text".