Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It - Rilegato

Alibek, Ken; Handelman, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0375502319 ISBN 13: 9780375502316

Casa editrice: Random House 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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Advance praise for Biohazard

"As the top scientist in the Soviet biowarfare program and the inventor of the world's most powerful anthrax, Ken Alibek has stunned the highest levels of the U.S. government with his revelations. Now, in a calm, compelling, utterly convincing voice, he tells the world what he knows. Modern biology is producing weapons that in killing power may exceed the hydro-gen bomb. Ken Alibek describes them with the intimate knowledge of a top weaponeer."--Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone

"An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware. While we all grew up with the anxiety of the threat of a nuclear winter, little did we know there was an equally horrific menace from biotechnology. Biohazard takes you behind the scenes of the Soviet Union's clandestine bioweapons program. Read and be amazed. . . ."--Robin Cook, author of Contagion

"This is a gripping book. The hum of machines that kept deadly airborne germs away from the scientists and their families can be heard in the background. The technical details are vivid and terrible even as the human story unfolds. It was fascinating--and chilling--to peer inside this awesome war machine. I worked for a dozen years to develop defenses against a Soviet threat that was largely unknown. To see its full scope made me realize how overpowered we would have been if it had ever been used. Military casualties would have been incredible, but civilians would have suffered equally as contagious diseases raced through cities and towns. Some of the Soviet 'advances,' such as inducing antibiotic resistance in classical pathogens like plague, would have changed the practice of medicine forever."
--C. J. Peters, author of Virus Hunter, former deputy commander of USAMRIID, now at the CDC

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375502319
• ISBN 13: 9780375502316
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 319