Ebook: 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
Author: Alibek Kenneth, Handelman Stephen
- Tags: Biological weapons, Biological weapons--Soviet Union, Biologische wapens, Biological weapons -- Soviet Union, Soviet Union, Sovjet-Unie
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;Soviet Union;Sovjet-Unie
- Language: English
- epub
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 to perfect the tools of a biological Armageddon. They called it their Manhattan Project. It was the deadliest and darkest secret of the cold war.
What you are about to read has never before been made public. Ken Alibek began his career as a doctor wanting to save lives and ended up running the Soviet biological weapons...