Research Catalog

Title

The plague makers : the secret world of biological warfare / Wendy Barnaby.

Author

Barnaby, Wendy.

Publication

New York : Continuum, ©2002.

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Details

Description

vii, 229 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The reality of bioterror struck America and the world in October 2001, as dramatic headlines stirred a national fear of anthrax in the mail. Five people were killed and government mail was delayed for months. People across the country were stocking up on antibiotics to thwart the threat of biological warfare." "In the search for answers to the anthrax conundrum, many will be interested to learn what has been brewing in laboratories around the world under the guise of government research. The West Nile virus that appeared in the Northeast in 1999 was identical to one that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein planned to use in a bioterror attack. The former Soviet government has developed a deadly combination of smallpox and Ebola. South Africa has funded biological weapons research to target specific ethnic groups. America controls stockpiles of various viruses for military use. And - even more terrifying - these new super-viruses are resistant to treatment."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Since 1989
• World politics > 1989-
• Biological warfare
• Biologischer Krieg
• Biological Warfare

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The growing threat -- Agents of biological warfare -- Terrorism -- Iraq's secret biological weapons -- Brothers in arms: UK, US and Canadian programmes -- Germany, USSR, Japan and South Africa -- Scientific developments and BW -- Defence against biological warfare -- International regulation -- By opposing end them.

ISBN

• 082641415X
• 9780826414151

LCCN

2002281060

OCLC

• ocm50208089
• 50208089
• SCSB-1263938

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library