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

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

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• Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It available on January 24 2026 from Amazon for 7.74
  
• 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 available on November 07 2023 from BiggerBooks for 11.38
  
• ISBN bar code 9780385334969 ξ4 registered November 08 2013
  
• ISBN bar code 9780385334969 ξ5 registered November 07 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780385334969 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780385334969 ξ3 registered February 08 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780385334969 ξ2 registered August 10 2012
  
• Product category is Book
• Manufacturered by Delta
  

• Sku # 903766598
  
• Sku # 9780385334969R
  
• Product color is Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman
  

• Product weight is 0.89 lbs.
  

Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs...how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent...the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations...the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe. In this fast-paced memoir, Ken Alibek combines cutting-edge science with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the most awful weapons imaginable. The result will remind readers of The Hot Zone, Richard Preston's smart bestseller about the Ebola virus. That book focuses on the dangers of a freak accident; Biohazard shows how disease can become a deliberate tool of war. Alibek, once a top scientist in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, describes putting anthrax on a warhead and targeting a city on the other side of the world. "A hundred kilograms of anthrax spores would, in optimal atmospheric conditions, kill up to three million people in any of the densely populated metropolitan areas of the United States," he writes. "A single SS-18 missile could wipe out the population of a city as large as New York." Chilling passages like these, plus discussions of proliferation and terrorism, make Biohazard a harrowing book, but it also has a human side. Alibek, who defected to the United States, describes the routine danger of his work: "A bioweapons lab leaves its mark on a person forever." An unending stream of vaccinations has destroyed his sense of smell, afflicted him with allergies, made it impossible to eat certain kinds of food, and "weakened my resistance to disease and probably shortened my life." But it didn't take away his ability to tell an astonishing story. --John J. Miller

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References

^ Stephen Handelman (2014). 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, Delta. ISBN 9780385334969 (revised May 2018)
^ Alibek K, Handelman S (1999). 9780385334969, Delta Publishing. ISBN 9780385334969 (revised Nov 2013)
^ Stephen Handelman, Ken W. AlibekBiohazard : The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Stephen Handelman and Ken W. Alibek (2000, Paperback) ISBN 9780385334969 (revised Feb 2015)
^ Ken Alibek (2000). Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, Delta. Amazon. ISBN 9780385334969 (revised Jan 2026)
^ (2015). 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 BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780385334969 (revised Nov 2023)