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001403902 1001_ $$aLeitenberg, Milton.
001403902 24514 $$aThe Soviet biological weapons program$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba history /$$cMilton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn.
001403902 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012.
001403902 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvi, 921 p.) :$$bill.
001403902 500__ $$aContains contribution by Raymond A. Zilinskas, MIIS faculty/staff.
001403902 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001403902 5050_ $$aThe Soviet Union's biological warfare program, 1918-1972 -- Beginnings of the "modern" Soviet BW program, 1970-1977 -- The USSR Ministry of Defense facilities and ITS biological warfare program -- The open-air testing of biological weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- Soviet civilian sector defenses against biological warfare and infectious diseases -- Biopreparat's role in the Soviet Biological Warfare program and its survival in Russia -- Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector" -- Biopreparat facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- Soviet biological weapons and doctrines for their use -- Distinguishing between offensive and defensive biological warfare activities -- Assessments of Soviet biological warfare activities by Western intelligence services -- United States covert biological warfare disinformation -- Soviet allegations of the use of biological weapons by the United States -- Sverdlovsk 1979: the release of bacillus anthracis spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense facility and its consequences -- Soviet research on mycotoxins -- Assistance by Warsaw Pact states to the Soviet Union's biological warfare program -- The question of proliferation from the USSR biological warfare program -- Recalcitrant Russian policies in a parallel area: chemical weapon demilitarization -- The Soviet Union, Russia and biological warfare arms control -- The Gorbachev years: the Soviet biological weapons program, 1985-1992 -- Boris Yeltsin to the present -- United States and international efforts to prevent proliferation of biological weapons expertise from the former Soviet Union.
001403902 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001403902 520__ $$aThis is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR's offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the U.S. and U.K. never obtained clear evidence that he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be present in Russia today.
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001403902 650_0 $$aBiological warfare$$zSoviet Union$$xHistory.
001403902 650_0 $$aBiological arms control$$zSoviet Union$$xHistory.
001403902 7001_ $$aZilinskas, Raymond A.
001403902 7001_ $$aKuhn, Jens H.
001403902 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aLeitenberg, Milton.$$tSoviet biological weapons program.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674047709$$w(DLC) 2011043160$$w(OCoLC)758383485
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