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Summary: Nothing could damn Clinton's Iraq Policy more than this book
Review: This book is hard to put down once you get started. Most of those who have heard about biological warfare have heard about it because of the vaccination of US soldiers in Desert Storm, but few knew the real truth about the danger of these weapons until now. The real story behind this story, though, is how the Clinton Administration has done absolutely nothing to protect this country from the risks of hte biological weapons program underway in Iraq, and in fact has completely undermined that effort. If only half of the stuff in this book is true, we all have a lot more to worry about than we thought we did.
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Summary: Wake Up Call for All
Review: Startling facts about bioweapons, written for all to understand. We learn about a threat to us and our children which is perhaps greater than nuclear warfare. One real shock is the mass availability of so many of these bioweapons. One of the saddest features is the realization that doctors and scientists were at the center of this deadly bio-cesspool. After absorbing this horrific information about what scientists / terrorists have created, we must press our leaders and government to prepare adequate responses to these looming disasters.
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Summary: Excellent, sobering and a must read!
Review: If this book is true, the global situation for infectious disease outbreak from bio-weapons has reached critical mass. Tons created... Smallpox, anthrax, plague... not just the Russians, the US too... Diabolical scientific work...
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Summary: Excellent reading- should be required for all college grads
Review: One of our duties in a democracy is to look into the face of danger to help avoid our own destruction. Dr. Alibek has provided a tremendous service to alert the world about the dangers of bioweapons. His detail and experience in this is terrifying. It helped me realize the sad fact of our lack of preparation for a bioweapon attack. It's a good wake up call to the world. As a doctor, I feel compelled to suport this book.
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Summary: Background info
Review: Per the 6/2/99 New York Times front page, Ken Alibek (real name: Dr. Kantjan Alibekov) is responsible for producing hundreds of tons genetically engineered anthrax bacteria which was secretly buried in the Aral Sea in 1988. According to the Times, enough to kill the world several times over. His bacteria are still alive and leacking into sands of the dying sea. Neighboring countries were never told it was there and Russia lied about the island's true purpose until 1992! No one can afford to decontaminate the area now. The toxic anthrax vaccine forced on our US military was developed from this criminal's spores. Biopreparat's so-called accidents aren't news. In 1998, The Washington Post uncovered a 1979 anthrax epidemic caused by Alibek/Alibekov's labs. Doctors who attended 66 dying patients secretly kept records of the outbreak, which was covered up by the KGB. They knew they were dealing with drug-resistant, genetically engineered material 20 years ago. This man is anything but a hero. Just another money-grubbing Soviet defector.
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Summary: Super bueno
Review: Este libro es muy bueno lo recomiendo, a mi me cambio la vida
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Summary: Excellent and Infuriating
Review: Terrific book. Dr. Alibek has clearly done mankind an invaluable service by defecting, assisting the US Government and finally going public with testimony and this book. His information reveals that the Soviet Union (and now Russia) is capable of killing billions of people. One very disturbing revelation is that Gorbachev was responsible for pushing the biological weapons program into the next more dangerous level. After reading this book the reader's view of the (current) Russian military leadership becomes one of utter distrust.
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Summary: A must read for military NBC officers and specialists!
Review: This is not a novel. Dr. Alebek's revelations of the Soviet biological weapons capabilities surpass the training currently provided to 99% of NATO military forces. Readers with an understanding of the true potential of biological weapons and our inability to cope with them will be astounded by the depth and bredth of the Soviet, now Russian, programs and capabilites. One need only to look at the influenza pandemic of 1918 or the European "Black Death" of 1347-1354 to be left dumbfounded by the apocalyptic potential developed by the former Soviet Union and revealed by Dr. Alebek in Biohazard. This book is a must read for political leaders, military commanders, military doctors, NBC officers and NBC specialists.
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Summary: more of a social history of the ussr
Review: I thought the book was interesting, and informative. But aside form the technological information, the insight into soviet social rank and interaction, was very interesting.
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Summary: Good for the non-specialist reader.
Review: Alibek's personal story is very much along the lines of other defectors stories, such as Belenko, Viktor Suvorov and a number of defectors from the KGB and the GRU. They were talented people who were absorbed by the Soviet machine until an external event caused them to begin re-examining the system and eventually come to reject it. In this respect there is nothing new. The parts of the book that make it worth reading are his description of the Soviet/Russian biological warfare program and the scale of the effort, and the background that he gives on biological warfare agents. The reader who does not have a scientific background should find his expositions clear and come away wiser about the need to prevent proliferation of biological weapons and the problems associated with counterproliferation.
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