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(Current bid: $7.95) * Biohazard - Biohazard (1992) (Price: $7.99) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reviews Editorial Reviews (8) Customer Reviews (26) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com 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 The New York Times Book Review, Philip Taubman ...a richly descriptive report on the Soviet program and Alibek's role in it. Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone "As the top scientist in the Soviet Union's biowarfare program and the inventor of the world's most powerful anthrax, Dr. Ken Alibek has stunned the highest levels of the U.S. government with his revelations. Now, in a calm, compelling, utterly convincing voice, he tells the world what he knows. Modern biology is producing weapons that in killing power may exceed the hydrogen bomb. Ken Alibek describes them with the intimate knowledge of a top weaponeer." Book Description Imagine a hot zone in which Ebola is being spliced--using the latest techniques of genetic engineering--with smallpox, the most infectious disease known to man. Now imagine that cocktail is meant for you. For fifty years, while the world stood in terror of a nuclear war, Russian scientists hidden in heavily guarded secret cities refined and stockpiled a new kind of weapon of mass destruction--an invisible weapon that would strike in silence and could not be traced. It would leave hundreds of thousands dead in its wake and would continue to spread devastation long after its release. The scientists were bioweaponeers, working ... read more See all reviews... Customer Reviews Write an online review and share your thoughts with other readers! Fascinating and Frightful Reviewer: Eric Larmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Indiana November 17, 1999 This book should be required reading for those interested in bioterrorism. If you work in public health this is great for awareness level training, it's informative and entertaining. Was this review helpful to you? fast-paced and well-written book Reviewer: Alan from Fairfax, Virginia October 24, 1999 This is a great book with unbelieveable accounts of the horror commited by the Russian government. I believe that Ken Alibek is a great man who overcame many obsticles to become the number one man in the field of biological defence. I highly recomend this book to anyone who likes books about history, biography, modern conterversy, and heart-pounding, fast-pased novels. Was this review helpful to you? A wonderful book on an utterly terrible subject Reviewer: Marceau Ratard from Clemson, South Carolina October 5, 1999 It almost sickened me to read about some of the projects the author and his fellow scientists were involved in. I realize that this type of research goes on all over the world, including here in the United States, that only makes this subject more frightening. The stories about the accidents, cover-ups, and the back door dealings really showed how the military system worked in the former Soviet Union. The book was great, it clearly showed the progression of bioweapon research from the earliest parts of the twentieth century to the recent and probabally still ongoing research today. Who in there right mind would want to make an ebola-small pox virus? 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