The Soviet biological weapons program: a history

by Leitenberg, Milton

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Title Statements

Full title :The Soviet biological weapons program : a history / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas ; with Jens H. Kuhn.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (xvi-921 p.) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674047709, 0674047702
oclc:ocn834906669
LC Classification:UG447.8
Dewey Decimal:358/.3882094709045

The Soviet Union's biological warfare program, 1918-1972 -- Beginnings of the "modern" Soviet BW program, 1970-1977 -- The USSR Ministry of Defense facilities and ITS biological warfare program -- The open-air testing of biological weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- Soviet civilian sector defenses against biological warfare and infectious diseases -- Biopreparat's role in the Soviet Biological Warfare program and its survival in Russia -- Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector" -- Biopreparat facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- Soviet biological weapons and doctrines for their use -- Distinguishing between offensive and defensive biological warfare activities -- Assessments of Soviet biological warfare activities by Western intelligence services -- United States covert biological warfare disinformation -- Soviet allegations of the use of biological weapons by the United States -- Sverdlovsk 1979: the release of bacillus anthracis spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense facility and its consequences -- Soviet research on m…

Subjects

Armes biologiques -- Contrôle -- URSS Armes biologiques -- Histoire. -- URSS Biological arms control Biological arms control -- History. -- … Biological warfare Biological warfare -- History. -- Sovie… Biological weapons Biological weapons -- History. -- Sovie… Guerre biologique -- Histoire. -- URSS History Soviet Union