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Germs:
Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William J. Broad
Amazon.com
Three reporters from The New York Times survey the recent history of
biological weapons and sound an alarm about the coming threat of the "poor
man's hydrogen bomb." Germs begins ominously enough, recounting the chilling
attack by the followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1984 on the Dalles,
Oregon--no one died, but nearly 1,000 were infected with a strain of salmonella
that the cult had legally obtained, then cultured and distributed.
While the U.S. maintained an active "bugs and gas" program in the '50s
and early '60s, bio-weapons were effectively pulled off this country's
agenda in 1972 when countries around the world, led by the United States,
forswore development of such weapons at the Biological and Toxin
Weapons Convention. The issue reemerged in the early '90s thanks to Saddam
Hussein and revelations of the clandestine and massive buildup of bio-weapons
in remote corners of the Soviet Union. The book's description of the Soviet
program is horrific. At its peak the program employed thousands of
scientists, developing bio-engineered pathogens as well as producing hundreds
of tons of plague, anthrax, and smallpox annually. The authors conclude
that while a biological attack against the United States is not necessarily
inevitable, the danger of bio-weapons is too real to be ignored. Well researched
and documented, this book will not disappoint readers looking for
a reliable and sober resource on the topic. --Harry C. Edwards |
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The
Eleventh Plague :
The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare
by Leonard A. Cole |
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Anthrax:
The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
by Jeanne Guillemin
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The great equalizer between humans and sheep, anthrax has filled us
with morbid curiosity as far back as records exist. Once believed to
be a manifestation of unholy fire, today it is seen as a weapon of deranged
terrorists or sinister governments. Medical anthropologist Jeanne Guillemin's
Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak examines the 1979 deaths
of 64 Soviet citizens in the Ural mountains. Blamed at the time on
tainted meat, Guillemin's team proved that a plume of spores from a nearby
military site caused the event (Boris Yeltsin admitted this much at about
the same time). Not just a medical detective story, Guillemin's book is
also an insightful look into the effects such an outbreak has on
survivors and a penetrating analysis of the prospects of biological warfare
in the not-too-distant future. Starting in the local cemetery to
find the victims' identities the KGB had long ago seized their records--the
team interviews survivors and kin, unleashing long-repressed feelings
and yielding valuable information about those struck down. Ultimately,
despite interference from the Russian military and civil service, the tainted
meat hypothesis is refuted and clear evidence of illegal and dangerous
research released. The reader is left to wonder about one Russian's suggestion
that if the wind had changed course one day in 1979, hundreds of thousands
might have died. Where does that leave us today? --Rob Lightner |
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Chemical
and Biological Weapons:
Anthrax and Sarin (High-Tech Military Weapons)
by Gregory Payan |
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Biohazard:
The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons
Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman (Contributor)
Amazon.com
In this fast-paced memoir, Ken Alibek combines cutting-edge science
with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the
most awful weapons imaginable. The result will remind readers of
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston's smart bestseller about the Ebola
virus. That book focuses on the dangers of a freak accident; Biohazard
shows how disease can become a deliberate tool of war. Alibek, once a top
scientist in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, describes putting
anthrax on a warhead and targeting a city on the other side of the world.
"A hundred kilograms of anthrax spores would, in optimal atmospheric conditions,
kill up to three million people in any of the densely populated metropolitan
areas of the United States," he writes. "A single SS-18 [missile]
could wipe out the population of a city as large as New York." |
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First
Responder Chem-Bio Handbook
by Ben N. Venzke (Editor)
National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) Zgram - March 19,
1998 This is a super book! It doesn't drone on and on about the
composition and history of Chemical and Biological Weapons - it is indeed
a First Responder's Handbook providing initial assessment, signs and symptoms,
diagnosis, treatment, decontamination and precautions. There is also a
section devoted to the establishment of a decontaminization zone. Very
fine work.
DERA International WMD Preparedness Director Bascombe J. Wilson,
CEM, Former Commander, USAF Emergency Services Team
"I found this handbook to be authoritative, easily used in the field under
adverse weather and light conditions, and excellent for classroom or exercise
use." |
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Chem-Bio:
Frequently Asked Questions
by Barbara Graves (Editor)
Book Description
The Chem-Bio: Frequently Asked Questions (CB-FAQ) book is designed
to assist those who suddenly need to quickly develop a working knowledge
of chem-bio terrorism or who need a quick refresher on various aspects
of chem-bio. The 164 page 5 x 6.5 inch pocket-sized book is in a
question and answer format and has been written for people who do not have
a scientific background in chem-bio. |
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Scourge
: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
by Jonathan B. Tucker |
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