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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It Paperback – April 11, 2000

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“Read and be amazed. . . . An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware.”—Robin Cook, author of Contagion

Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction—by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon.
Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia’s darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.
 
No one knows more about Russia’s astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia’s germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs . . . how Moscow’s leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent . . . the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations . . . the startling story behind Russia’s attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue,
Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe.
 
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“Harrowing . . . richly descriptive . . . [an] absorbing account.”
The New York Times Book Review
 
“Remarkable . . . terrifying revelations . . . [Ken Alibek’s] overall message is ignored at great national peril.”
—Newsday

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“Harrowing . . . richly descriptive . . . [an] absorbing account.”The New York Times Book Review
 
“Remarkable . . . terrifying revelations . . . [Ken Alibek’s] overall message is ignored at great national peril.”
—Newsday
 
“An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware. While we all grew up with the anxiety of the threat of a nuclear winter, little did we know there was an equally horrific menace from biotechnology. Biohazard takes you behind the scenes of the Soviet Union’s clandestine bioweapons program. Read and be amazed.”
—Robin Cook, author of Contagion
 
“As the top scientist in the Soviet biowarfare program and the inventor of the world’s most powerful anthrax, 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.”
—Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
 
“This is a gripping book. The hum of machines that kept deadly airborne germs away from the scientists and their families can be heard in the background. The technical details are vivid and terrible even as the human story unfolds. It was fascinating—and chilling—to peer inside this awesome war machine. I worked for a dozen years to develop defenses against a Soviet threat that was largely unknown. To see its full scope made me realize how overpowered we would have been if it had ever been used. Military casualties would have been incredible, but civilians would have suffered equally as contagious diseases raced through cities and towns. Some of the Soviet ‘advances,’ such as inducing antibiotic resistance in classical pathogens like plague, would have changed the practice of medicine forever.”
—C. J. Peters, author of Virus Hunter, former deputy commander of USAMRIID, now at the CDC

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Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.
No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs...how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent...the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations...the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Delta; Reprint edition (April 11, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385334966
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385334969
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 0.85 x 9.17 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2002
Kanatjan Alibekov was in charge of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union's bioweapons factories. The Soviet's system that produced and stored the largest biological weapons stock pile the world has ever known. He had massive stockpiles of Anthrax, Plague, Smallpox, Marburg, Ebola and too many others to list under his supervision. He had a list of first strike areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle.
His story is engrossing. The health effects that he has suffered because of his work are amazing. He has lost all sense of smell and can't eat butter, cheese, eggs, mayonaise, sausages, chocolate or candy. He takes two or three pills of allergy medicine a day minimum. He must rub ointment on his skin because the natural lubricants have been lost. The numerous vacinations he had to take over the years for work with infectious disease's has caused many complications with his health.
This is his story as well as the story of the Soviet government and their deceipt of the world as well as their deceipt of their own citizens. Brainwashing younger generations to believe that the United States would stop at nothing to destroy them. This book is truly engrossing. Kanatjan Alibekov defected to the United States and changed his name to ken Alibek and began helping the United States with information to combat the massive Soviet stockpiles. And his information has proven to the United States how far we are behind but then again, we didn't break the treaty against production of bioweapons. Many of the scientists also fled to Iraq and Iran and continued production there.
This book is balanced and informative as well as interesting. It is a bit unnerving but also fascinating. A must read for anyone.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2024
First and foremost...I am grateful this got published. Little did I realize that the US and USSR and Bioweapons are a serious problem and mental health is linked to the drugs and weapons made from viruses and cultures from around the world. Ken Alibek (real name Kanjian Alibekov) is literally Dr. Death in the flesh. He was the person that oversaw some of the biggest viruses found from Plum Island, Sverdlovsk and more. Michael Rodgers biohazard as well brings that same clarity that Ken does but Ken goes more in depth. Michael had a civilian perspective of what happened from after ww2 Unit 731 and Manhattan project to Bioprepriat and more. Ken Literally shows on the page the toxic chemicals and cultures and environment surrounding the dangers of Biological weapons and biochemistry and tech. Hell even disclosed that some of the illness's ranging from Q fever and tularemia were his creations with his colleagues. Even witnessing the lab leaks and spills from poor procedures not followed by his colleagues. He is quite knowledgeable in the microbiology and chemical virology and would recommend this to anyone who is keen to building a stronger understanding on future threats pertaining to health. I want to know what really caused covid 19 and think this is a good start to how biological viruses are made from a person who created this horrific weapons program. Literally gripped me the entire time knowing that all this really happened from 1975-1999.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2014
The book is very informative, and it is rather a source than an entertaining reading. I did not miss a line,because of my professional interest as a microbiologist and because I knew personally many of the listed in the book individuals. Perhaps, for an ordinary reader it is too many technical things.Unfortunately, there are no summary to be presented in a lay language Also is missing and would be of interest for an ordinary reader a perspective of today on the possibility and danger of biological weapon, and not just from Russia, but rather from other countries where people were trained as a result of collaboration with Russians and beyond. I tried to address this issue in my recent book titled "Murder in the Lab".The book is neeses forthose who are interested in the problem, and congratulat ions tp the authors for this work. Leonid Heifets
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
An anxiety inducing look into the life of a brilliant man and his moral dilemma as a Physician. Remarkable and terrifying story.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2001
There is no more relevant book to read in September, October, and November of 2001 than this book. The writing is exceptionally clear and some parts read like the gripping spy story that it really is.

The author, a top soviet bioweapons scientist, wrote this book because The West has not taken him seriously about the bioweapon technology that was developed in the late 1980's and early 1990's in the Soviet Union. This is one of the scariest books you will ever read in your life, but knowledge is power, and this is perhaps the most powerful book I have read in my life.

Do you know why Nixon considered his war on cancer in 1973 to be his finest achievement?

Do you know why the Russians so easily agreed to disarm their nuclear programs with the Salt, Salt II, and Start Treaties of the 1970's and 1980's??

Do you want to know how a bioweapons facility is built to protect itself, and how things can go terrible wrong in several facilities over the course of a decade ??

What happens to you or a friend when you accidentally inject yourself with a bioweapon you yourself have developed for warfare ??

Do you realize that after injecting yourself your colleagues might look at yourself in a new light, more a guinea pig than as someone to be saved ??

Is it more important to build a nuclear shelter in your basement or a positive vapor pressure in your attic ??

The answers can be found in this book.
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The Great Cornholio
5.0 out of 5 stars this is a great cold war veteran book that is now even more ...
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2018
whoa, i bought this book ages ago (back when i was still unhappily married. as far as being a geek, with attack pilot hours, this is a great cold war veteran book that is now even more freaked out by CRISPR technology. OMG what will the scientists cook up now
kishen
5.0 out of 5 stars A chilling read...
Reviewed in India on May 23, 2018
I came to know about this book from the index pages of David Hoffman's Pulitzer prize-winning book - The Dead Hand. Biohazard reveals the heights of insanity of a ruthless system hell bent on using any means to deter its rival as well as restrict its own people from defecting to the other side . One of the chilling aspects I encountered was that once you are infected by a pathogen from accidental exposure, your co researchers see you more as a guinea pig than instead try to save your life as in the case of Nikolai Ustinov. One way or the other, Russia is undoubtedly responsible for the threats of nuclear / biological terrorism we're facing today. There is a real possibility that biopreparat may still be functioning today covertly for harmful purposes as hinted by the author in the last few pages.

As one reviewer rightly pointed, you may read this book but be warned - it'll damage your view on our species..Only humans are capable of such horrific evil.
Volter Paukku
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
Reviewed in Germany on November 18, 2017
Anyone interested in biological warfare should read this book. A real look on the inside-workings on the workings of the bioweaponeering-programs of the soviet union.
Pedro Perez Frances
5.0 out of 5 stars Descripción detallada del desarrollo del programa de guerra biológica de l Unión Soviética.
Reviewed in Spain on April 28, 2017
Texto con estilo narrativo con las experiencias del Dr. Ken Alibeck, se pueden obtener muchas anecdotas y la filosofia del programa de guerra biológica de la URSS e inferir parte de la filosofia de la actual doctrina de empleo de Rusia.
Matteo
4.0 out of 5 stars Se fosse vero
Reviewed in Italy on February 9, 2013
Non ho controllato la veridicità sull'autore o su quello che racconta. Ma se quello che c'è scritto nel libro fosse anche solo per la metà vero, non è che sia rimasto molto da ammirare dell'ex-URSS