The Soviet biological weapons program

The Soviet biological weapons program: a history

by Leitenberg, Milton

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This is the first attempt to understand the broad scope of the USSR's offensive biological weapons research from its inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the US and UK never obtained clear evidence he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be revived in Russia in the future.

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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.

Summary

This is the first attempt to understand the broad scope of the USSR's offensive biological weapons research from its inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the US and UK never obtained clear evidence he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be revived in Russia in the future.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

  • Description:xvi, 921 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674047709, 0674047702, 9780674065260, 0674065263
  • oclc:ocn758383485
  • LC Classification:UG447.8
  • Dewey Decimal:358/.3882094709045

Table of Contents

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…

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Subjects

Armes biologiques -- Contrôle -- URSS Armes biologiques -- Histoire. -- URSS Biological arms control Biological arms control -- History. -- … biological arms control -- History. -- … Biological warfare Biological Warfare -- history Biological warfare -- History. -- Sovie… Biological Warfare -- prevention & cont… Biological Warfare Agents Biological weapons Biological weapons -- History. -- Sovie… Biologische Waffe Biologiska vapen -- historia BW -- History. -- USSR Guerre biologique -- Histoire. -- URSS History History, 20th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo P…

Writers

Leitenberg, Milton Kuhn, Jens H. Zilinskas, Raymond A.

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