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Tarfumes.com - Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
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Manufacturer: Delta
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 358
EAN: 9780385334969
ISBN: 0385334966
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2000-04-11
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: 2000-04-11
Studio: Delta
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Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.
No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs...how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent...the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations...the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe.
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Summary: Scary, but top notch!
Comment: What would you do if you if you suddenly found out that the Russians were planning on releasing several tons of smallpox in the United States? That's right - tons! That's exactly what Dr. Ken Alibek and Stephen Handleman wrote about in their scary book, Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It.
Dr. Alibek was a high-ranking Russian military officer who actually ran the Russian bioweapons program from 1988 to 1992 - the year he defected to the United States. Under his command, the Russians built the largest bioweapons research and production facility in history. Named Biopreparat, it included about seventy facilities located throughout the Soviet Union. That's where the good doctor rose up through the ranks as he became an expert on biowarfare. He conducted extensive research into weaponizing plague, tularemia, anthrax and small pox, and developed the technology needed to produce large quantities of those pathogens. As if that isn't scary enough, you simply won't believe what the U.S. government geniuses did when Dr. Alibek brought all of this to their attention. Like I said, this book is scary, and it definitely should not be read by anyone with a germ phobia. For the rest of you - go for it.
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Summary: Amazing, Scary and Well Written!
Comment: This book is a fantastic read. It really lets you in on what was going on in the Soviet Union in regards to their biological warfare programs. (It also informs you of the relationships between the Soviet Union and other countries such as India, Iraq, Cuba, etc. and the information/equipment that may have been passed on.) Ken Alibek has led an amazing life and this story could not have been told any better. It is told in an easy to understand format, but includes a lot of great information about the viruses and the implementation of them in weapons. He really explains about the structure of the program in an easy to understand way. The index in the back is great. If you are a fan of Richard Preston's books, you will enjoy this one. In fact, Mr. Alibek is referenced in the Demon in the Freezer. The realizations are scary, but everyone should be informed of the possibilities.
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Summary: Well written
Comment: This book is well written with intimate detail about the bioweapon program threats that we all face even today.
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Summary: Not for optimists
Comment: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
This book clearly represents the ultimate extent to which the former Russian communist war machinery was ready to go just to achieve its desired aspiration - the world domination regardless to anything dear or sacred to human civilization . No cost , no international decree , signed by every major superpower , no human dignity , was important to communist war planners , who saw the potential of biological weapons as its most precious secret, the most decisive ordnance in the world , more important even than the nuclear ,as the germs simply leave the material proofs of human endeavors intact and thus ready to be exploited by the only alternative to the world proletariat - the dreaded KGB and its various innocuous organizations , operating like a hydra , encompassing both civilian and military sphere , without the vast majority in the loop . The author bravely opens the window into this shady world , where every precaution was taken to ensure the complete secrecy and airtightness over different projects ,e.g. Vector , Biopreparat , ultra secret KGB lab near Moscow , specialized in the production and manufacture of killing devices , of which some have been successfully used , e.g. in the assassination of a Bulgarian dissident Markov in London ). The author admits his being an involuntary accomplice in this biological weapons build-up , but , as he says , he and his colleagues , the top of the Russian science , had accepted their roles as soldiers as a patriotic duty , thus breaking the most basic tenets of medicine , becoming in fact scientific outcasts , nonpersons , living in non existing cities , spawning across the whole of the Russian continent , dedicating their knowledge and talent to destruction on the most unimaginable and horrifying scale . Really , a scary analysis of a total disregard for human lives and environment itself as well( e.g. the destruction of the Aral Sea ) .
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Summary: Awakening Terror
Comment: I bought and read this book years ago and was astounded with the information that was revealed. It's a dangerous world we live in knowing what various governemnts have created in order to destroy humans etc... This story is coming from the Author who was behind some of the most deadly biological, chemical weapons created in Cold War Soviet Union. he defected from the Soviet Union and then went to work for the U.S. governemnt applying his knowledge of weaponized biological agents and how to combat them etc... It's a true story with lots of information. It's a Great Book.
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