The Soviet biological weapons program : a history /

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Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund hugely expensive research that added nothing to the country's security. This history is the first attempt to und...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Leitenberg, Milton (Autor), Zilinskas, Raymond A. (Autor), Kuhn, Jens H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Biological weapons > Soviet Union > History.
Biological warfare > Soviet Union > History.
Biological arms control > Soviet Union > History.
Biological Warfare > history
Biological Warfare > prevention & control
Biological Warfare Agents
History, 20th Century
Armes biologiques > URSS > Histoire.
Guerre biologique > URSS > Histoire.
Armes biologiques > Contrôle > URSS > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > Biological & Chemical Warfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Arms Control.
Biological arms control
Biological warfare
Biological weapons
USSR
Soviet Union
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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.

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