Review (PDF) The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
This is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR’s offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the U.S. and U.K. never obtained clear evidence that he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be present in Russia today.
File Size: 6839 KB
Print Length: 960 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (June 29, 2012)
Publication Date: June 29, 2012
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Language: English
ASIN: B008D3BG86
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For at least 20 years (1972-1992) the Soviet Union hid a ~65,000 person offensive biological weapons program. This Soviet program had at least five R&D centers and 7 massive mobilization production centers with weapons filling stations. These were not defensive vaccine research centers. They produced _tons_ of weaponized anthrax, plague, smallpox genetically modified for virulence and designed to bypass existing vaccines.The Soviet Union and now Russia has lied continually about the existence of the program.While we missed a few dozen attackers on 9.11, missing 65,000 people in a weapons program was the largest failure of U.S. intelligence in American history. It was the largest failure of the U.S. arms negotiations.This book lays it all out it in excruciating and painful detail. This book is the reference standard for the history of the Soviet biological weapons program.
This is the most comprehensive book written about the Cold War development of biological weapons in the Former Soviet Union. It is amazing to think that such a large program was hidden from the world for so long. Both Leitenberg and Zilinskas area excellent writers and although the text is a daunting 1000 pages it actually reads quite easily.I recommend this book to history buffs, scientists, military personnel and anyone interested in how it came to be that our world is frightened about the spread of diseases and the threat of biological warfare.
A superior work product with extensive detail and documentation. A "must have" for anyone interested in the history of Soviet Biological Weapons as well as the Soviet Union generally in the past 100 years.
Comprehensive look at the Soviet BW program. I'm amazed with all the secrecy surrounding the project, the authors were able to compile so much data. Certainly not a light read on the subject.
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