The Soviet Biological Weapons Program : : A History /

The Soviet Biological Weapons Program : : A History / / Milton Leitenberg, Raymond A Zilinskas, Jens H Kuhn.

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Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund hugely expensive research that added nothing to the country's security. This history is the first attempt to und...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
VerfasserIn:
Leitenberg, Milton,
Kuhn, Jens H,
Zilinskas, Raymond A,
TeilnehmendeR:
Kuhn, Jens H,
Zilinskas, Raymond A,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 28 halftones, 6 line illustrations, 20 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program, 1918- 1972
  • 2. Beginnings of the "Modern" Soviet BW program, 1970- 1977
  • 3. USSR Ministry of Defense Facilities and its Biological Warfare Program
  • 4. Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island
  • 5. Soviet Civilian Sector Defenses against Biological Warfare and Infectious Diseases
  • 6. Biopreparat's Role in the Soviet Biological Warfare Program and Its Survival in Russia
  • 7. Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM)
  • 8. All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector"
  • 9. Biopreparat Facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk
  • 10. Soviet Biological Weapons and Doctrines for Their Use
  • 11. Distinguishing between Offensive and Defensive Biological Warfare Activities
  • 12. Assessments of Soviet Biological Warfare Activities by Western Intelligence Services
  • 13. United States Covert Biological Warfare Disinformation
  • 14. Soviet Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States
  • 15. Sverdlovsk 1979: The Release of Bacillus anthracis Spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense Facility and Its Consequences
  • 16. Soviet Research on Mycotoxins
  • 17. Assistance by Warsaw Pact States to the Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program
  • 18. Th e Question of Proliferation from the USSR Biological Warfare Program
  • 19. Recalcitrant Rus sian Policies in a Parallel Area: Chemical Weapon Demilitarization
  • 20. The Soviet Union, Russia, and Biological Warfare Arms Control
  • 21. The Gorbachev Years: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program, 1985- 1992
  • 22. Boris Yeltsin to the Present
  • 23. United States and International Efforts to Prevent Proliferation of Biological Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union
  • Conclusion
  • Annex A. Annex B. Annex C. Annex D. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
  • Annex A: Acronyms and Russian Terms
  • Annex B: Glossary of Biological Warfare-Related Words and Terms
  • Annex C: A Joint Decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, USSR, and the USSR Council of Ministers, Dated 24 June 1981
  • Annex D: Joint US/UK/Rus sian Statement of Biological Weapons
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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