Plague Wars The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare

Name: Plague Wars The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare
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ISBN: 9780312263799

ISBN-10: 0312263791

ISBN-13: 9780312263799

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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 using…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



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