Plague Wars The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare

Name: Plague Wars The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare
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ISBN: 9780312203535

ISBN-10: 0312203535

ISBN-13: 9780312203535

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Tom Mangold, Jeff Goldberg

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Anthrax. Plague. Smallpox. Ebola. These are the weapons of the future-- microscopic organisms produced in laboratories and unleashed on unwitting populations to reproduce, spread, and kill. They are as deadly as atomic bombs, much cheaper to create, and much easier to distribute-- inside a warhead on an intercontinental missile, in an aerosol can sprayed in a crowded building, or by a crop duster flying over a major city. Exposure occurs without warning. Infection from only a few minute particles can mean a ghastly and painful death. The kill rates are staggering. Modern biological warfare began during the 1930s, when the Japanese army conducted atrocious experiments on Chinese prisoners…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 2/5/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Tom Mangold has been a senior investigative reporter and war correspondent for BBC TV News and Current Affairs for thirty years and has won numerous awards for his work. He is the author of four bestselling books (THE FILE ON THE TSAR, THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI, COLD WARRIOR and PLAGUE WARS). He is married and lives in West London.



List of illustrations


Foreword


A note about sources



What If ...?



1999



Unit 731



Arms Race



The Soviet Programme



Cia



The Treaty



Cheating



Incident at Sverdlovsk



The Juniper Channel



The Defector



Protests



Inspection



Gorbachev



The Soviet Visit



Yeltsin



Trilateral Agreement



Alibekov



A Walk Through Pokrov



The Pfizer Fiasco



Postscript: Russia



Rhodesia, 1978



Nothing Personal



Wouter Basson



'Gert'



Truth and Reconciliation



Revelations



Arrest



Iraq



The Inspectors



Rogue State



Apocalypse Delayed



'Walkers, Floppers and Goners'



The Future



Geneva



The BWC



Description of BW Agents


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgements