Biohazard - Hardcover

Alibek, Ken

 
9780375502316: Biohazard
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375502319 ISBN 13: 9780375502316
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

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A former leader of the Soviet Union's bioweapons program describes his covert work with deadly viruses in a program that masqueraded as a pharmaceutical company and the lab disasters, KGB threats, and assassinations that became part of his life before his 1992 defection to the U.S. 25,000 first printing.

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Ken Alibek was born in Kauchuk, Kazakhstan, in 1950. He graduated in 1975 from the military faculty of the Tomsk Medical Institute, where he majored in infectious diseases and epidemiology. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology for research and development of plague and tularemia biological weapons and a doctorate of science in biotechnology for developing the technology to manufacture anthrax on an industrial scale. He joined Biopreparat in 1975 and was its first deputy chief from 1988 to 1992. Since his defection to the United States in 1992, he has briefed U.S. military intelligence on biological weapons. He is now working in biodefense.

Stephen Handelman is a columnist at Time. He was the Moscow bureau chief of The Toronto Star in the late eighties and early nineties and is the author of Co

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t zone in which Ebola is being spliced--using the latest techniques of genetic engineering--with smallpox, the most infectious disease known to man. Now imagine that cocktail is meant for you.

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

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375502319
ISBN 13 
9780375502316
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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