- Hardcover: 340 pages
- Publisher: Hutchinson; First Edition edition (21 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091800854
- ISBN-13: 978-0091800857
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 518,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Harrowing...richly descriptive...[An] Absorbing account."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Read and be amazed....An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware."
--Robin Cook, author of Contagion
"Terrifying revelations."
--"Newsday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Read and be amazed....An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware."
--Robin Cook, author of Contagion
"Terrifying revelations."
--"Newsday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Ken Alibek began as a patriotic Soviet citizen, spending 17 years making biological weapons and eventually rises to number two in command. Then he defected to the USA. This book tells of tests, leaks, outbreaks, infections and contaminations - and the plan to attack US cities.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hi all.
I just read this book in one sitting. I simply couldn't let it go. The book tells the story of the USSR research into biowarfare during the cold war, and is told by Kanatjan Alibekov who was at the very top of Biopreparat, the organ who conducted all the research. Biopreparat examined smallpox, plague, anthrax, AIDS, influenza, ebola etc. for use with warfare. The USSR was aboslutely sure that the other powers, like America and England were doing the same, even though a treaty was signed, never to do this.
Reading the book it's hard to understand that this is a true story.
The book is cheap, well-written, and gives a very interesting picture of the cold war, the collapse of the USSR and history in general. I felt history happen.
Thanks,
Nicholas Staubrand
I just read this book in one sitting. I simply couldn't let it go. The book tells the story of the USSR research into biowarfare during the cold war, and is told by Kanatjan Alibekov who was at the very top of Biopreparat, the organ who conducted all the research. Biopreparat examined smallpox, plague, anthrax, AIDS, influenza, ebola etc. for use with warfare. The USSR was aboslutely sure that the other powers, like America and England were doing the same, even though a treaty was signed, never to do this.
Reading the book it's hard to understand that this is a true story.
The book is cheap, well-written, and gives a very interesting picture of the cold war, the collapse of the USSR and history in general. I felt history happen.
Thanks,
Nicholas Staubrand
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.
Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ken Alibek's autobiographical account of the Soviet biological weapons program is probably the most astonishing, and downright terrifying, things I have read in a long time. It makes a complete mockery of Colin Powell and the vial of white powder - at peak the Soviets were able to manufacture *tons* of weaponised anthrax a day. Plus plenty of other horrible stuff - like Marburg, smallpox and the like. There are some rather detailed accounts of accidents that marred this programme - one of his subordinates getting infected and dying with Marburg, Alibek himself getting Tularemia, and a release of Anthrax that killed over a hundred people. The worst part is, of course, that all of the stuff that was developed, is still out there, and no longer in the hands of one government. Many of the Biopreparat scientists went on to work abroad. Plus, he also gives brief accounts of other sources of biological weapons - like the time in the US that a white supremacist almost got his hands on three vials of plague(!). Don't forget that the weaponised anthrax that was sent in the post in the US, *didn't* come from the Soviet programme.
There's plenty of little details in there too - the fact that all the vaccinations have left him with a huge list of alergies, the way that the cultures changed colour as they grew, the huge amount of political infighting - even a personal account of the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
There's plenty of little details in there too - the fact that all the vaccinations have left him with a huge list of alergies, the way that the cultures changed colour as they grew, the huge amount of political infighting - even a personal account of the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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This is a book about how the USSR worn out in conventional and atomic arms race decided to play in the illegal territory- bio weapons banned by the 1972 international treaty. Read more
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