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Robin cook, author of contagion as the top scientist in the soviet biowarfare program and the inventor of the worlds most powerful anthrax, ken alibek has stunned the highest levels of the u. I picked this up looking to gain some knowledge about cbrn and gained a much better understanding of the weaponization of viruses and bacteria. In this fastpaced memoir, ken alibek combines cuttingedge science with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the most awful weapons. Biohazard is the neverbeforetold story of russias darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded cold war secret. Biohazard the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the worldtold from the inside by the man who ran it the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the worldtold from the inside by the man who ran it by ken alibek and stephen handelman by ken alibek and stephen handelman. Biohazard is a first class book about biological warfare, whether read as a thriller or as a revelation. Jan 01, 1999 colonel kanatjan alibekov known as ken alibek since 1992 is a former soviet physician, microbiologist and biological warfare bw expert. Biohazard takes you behind the scenes of the soviet unions clandestine bioweapons program.
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