Books about Biowarfare from Amazon.com

“The bard of biological weapons captures
the drama of the front lines.”
-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy


The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.

Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world’s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines.

Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government’s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.

Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.


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In this essential guide to the past, present and future of bio-warfare, international security expert Malcolm Dando draws a wealth of ecperience and research to uncover the truth about the alarming failure of international community to place effective curbs on the use of this deadly weapon..
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How and why the US initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on Congress—the most significant political attack on US democracy in recent history—Boyle sheds new light on * the motives for the attack * the media black hole of silence * why the FBI may never apprehend the perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century The American people have deep cause for public concern about the US Chemical and Biological Defense Program..
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Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful ways leading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalization of scientific and technical expertise also means that many scientists and other individuals around the world are generating breakthroughs in the life sciences and related technologies. The risks posed by bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological weapons capabilities have increased concern about how the rapid advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology could enable the production of biological weapons with unique and unpredictable characteristics. "Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of Life Sciences" examines current trends and future objectives of research in public health, life sciences, and biomedical science that contain applications relevant to developments in biological weapons 5 to 10 years into the future and ways to anticipate, identify, and mitigate these dangers..
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The era of chemical and biological megadeath is upon us, and the potential of deadly biowarfare attacks from governments, militant independent groups, and even individuals is far greater than it has been at any time in the past. At this time, more than twenty-five countries are developing, or have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, in many cases in sufficient quantities to wipe out the entire population of the world.

So far the danger of chemical and biological aggression has been little acknowledged, and, at least in America, little prepared for by federal and local government. Most terrorist threats and attacks are not widely reported in the mainstream media. Although information about the proliferation of man-made diseases is carefully suppressed by governments and the media they will be covered in the pages of this book.

Not only is America unprepared and ignorant of what is happening, but the people in government and scientific professions who do know, who should be warning the American public about the dangers of chemical and biological terrorism, are instead doing their utmost to hide this information from us; information that is vital for our survival.

The information that is contained in the pages of this book will not be measured or calculated to reassure people that every-thing is fine, when reassurance is the exact opposite of what is needed at this time. It may even give you nightmares when you realize the real circumstance that we are in. The information in the pages that follow will be the truth about the biowarfare threat to America..
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Title: Nanosphere Funding Advances Biowarfare Agent Detection.
Publication:Nanoparticle News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 7 Issue: 8 Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1251 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Biotechs Join In Combating Biowarfare.
Author: Marion Webb
Publication:San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 22 Issue: 40 Page: 1

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Something has gone wrong with a top-secret biological warfare experiment at CIA. Martin Reismann of the CIA and Sergei Petrov of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service have very little time to find out what it is. As they follow the trail of an assassin, they discover a hidden gene splice from a CIA lab has made its way into the Russian grain supply. The contaminated seed is now growing in several fields in the former Soviet Union. Reismann and Petrov have less than three weeks to find the fields. They realize that if they fail, a second cold war is inevitable. But this one will unleash weapons never seen before and impossible to stop with a cease fire..
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This digital document is an article from Synthesis/Regeneration, published by WD Press on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1345 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Foot & Mouth Outbreak GM Vaccine and Biowarfare. (Biodevastation).(genetically modified)
Author: Mae-Wan Ho
Publication:Synthesis/Regeneration (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: WD Press
Page: 28(2)

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