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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leitenberg, Milton
Other Authors: Zilinskas, Raymond A.
Kuhn, Jens H.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012, ©2012.
Subjects:
Biological weapons > Soviet Union > History.
Biological warfare > Soviet Union > History.
Biological arms control > Soviet Union > History.
Physical Description:xvi, 921 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Soviet Union's biological warfare program, 1926-1972
  • Beginnings of the "modern" Soviet BW program, 1970-1977
  • The USSR Ministry of Defense facilities and the Soviet biological warfare program
  • The open-air testing of biological weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island
  • Defensive activities against biological warfare carried out in the Soviet civilian sector
  • Biopreparat's role in the Soviet BW program and its survival in Russia
  • Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM)
  • All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology SPA ("Vector")
  • Biopreparat facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk
  • Soviet biological weapons and doctrines for their use
  • Assessments of Soviet biological warfare activities by Western intelligence services
  • United States covert biological warfare disinformation
  • Distinguishing between offensive and defensive biological warfare activities
  • 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
  • Allegations of Soviet responsibility for the use of mycotoxins
  • Collaboration of Warsaw Pact states in the USSR's biological warfare program
  • The question of biological weapons proliferation from the USSR biological warfare program
  • Recalcitrant Russian policies in a parallel area: chemical weapon demilitarization
  • The USSR, 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.