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

Author/creator Leitenberg, Milton
Other author Zilinskas, Raymond A.
Other author Kuhn, Jens H.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Descriptionxvi, 921 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Biological weapons--Soviet Union. --History.
Biological warfare--Soviet Union. --History.
Biological arms control--Soviet Union. --History.

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 mycotoxins -- Assistance by Warsaw Pact states to the Soviet Union's biological warfare program -- The question of proliferation from the USSR biological warfare program -- Recalcitrant Russian policies in a parallel area: chemical weapon demilitarization -- The Soviet Union, Russia and biological warfare arms control -- The Gorbachev years: the Soviet biological weapons program, 1985-1992 -- Boris Yeltsin to the present -- United States and international efforts to prevent proliferation of biological weapons expertise from the former Soviet Union.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 737-887) and index.
LCCN 2011043160
ISBN9780674047709 (alkaline paper)
ISBN0674047702 (alkaline paper)

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