Summary of Ken Alibek & Stephen Handelman's Biohazard

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was a colonel with the Soviet army, and I was called to a meeting at Soviet army headquarters on Frunze Street in Moscow. I was taken to a small adjoining room, where I was issued a pass, and then on to a guard booth, where a young soldier examined my pass and picture.
#2 I was asked to help prepare the missiles for launching. I had developed a more potent anthrax weapon, which allowed us to load more missiles with anthrax without straining our labs’ resources.
#3 The Soviet Union developed and produced the anthrax weapons. The weapons took one to five days to incubate in the body, and victims often didn’t know that they had been attacked until after they began to feel the first symptoms.
#4 The Soviet Union had developed several biological weapons, including anthrax, plague, and smallpox. The first symptoms of anthrax are a faint blue coloration of the skin, followed by aching pain in the lungs, which can lead to death within twenty-four hours.

Sujets

• Chemical Warfare
• Biological Warfare
• Histoire
• Military
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398080
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ken Alibek & Stephen Handelman's Biohazard
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was a colonel with the Soviet army, and I was called to a meeting at Soviet army headquarters on Frunze Street in Moscow. I was taken to a small adjoining room, where I was issued a pass, and then on to a guard booth, where a young soldier examined my pass and picture.

#2

I was asked to help prepare the missiles for launching. I had developed a more potent anthrax weapon, which allowed us to load more missiles with anthrax without straining our labs’ resources.

#3

The Soviet Union developed and produced the anthrax weapons. The weapons took one to five days to incubate in the body, and victims often didn’t know that they had been attacked until after they began to feel the first symptoms.

#4

The Soviet Union had developed several biological weapons, including anthrax, plague, and smallpox. The first symptoms of anthrax are a faint blue coloration of the skin, followed by aching pain in the lungs, which can lead to death within twenty-four hours.

#5

I had risen to the top of Russian power, but I had grown up in a system that gave few privileges to non-Russians. I had earned as much as a Soviet government minister, but what mattered was the special status that gave me access to perks and influence.

#6

I had met with the general in charge of the KGB building, Yury Kalinin, to discuss using Soviet missiles to kill terrorists. He knew everything already. I wondered if Lebedinsky had called him.

#7

I worked in a large office with a high ceiling and a window that looked out over a park by the riverbank. I had inherited the oak desk from my predecessor, which held the real symbols of my authority: five telephones.

#8

The third floor was home to the First Department, which was responsible for maintaining our secret files and all communications with Biopreparat facilities around the country. It was administered by the KGB.

#9

The Aral Sea is a tear-shaped speck in the Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It was the antithesis of its name, as it was the site of a kingdom called Tmu Tarakan, which was a mystery kingdom on the shores of the Black Sea.

#10

The Fifteenth Directorate, which ran the Rebirth Island complex, had a year-round command post in Aralsk, the closest mainland community. The town was once a fishing port, but the shrinking sea left it stranded like a shipwreck sixty miles from shore.

#11

The American government developed biological weapons that could be countered by antibiotics or vaccines. The Soviet government decided that the best agents were those for which there was no known cure.

#12

The Soviet Union began developing and testing many different varieties of unconventional weapons in the 1980s. They were able to combine the knowledge gained from postwar biochemistry and genetic research with modern industrial techniques to develop what are called aerosol weapons.

#13

The Soviet Union spent a lot of time and money developing concentrated aerosols that could reach the Q50 level with very few bacterial cells or viral particles. The most effective biological weapons leave buildings, transportation systems, and other infrastructure intact.

#14

The Fifteenth Directorate, which was in charge of Biopreparat, was not prepared to deal with the free-wheeling atmosphere of scientific research. They tried to undermine the new agency, which they viewed as an upstart child.

#15

I was six years out of graduate school, and had only just been promoted to my new job. I was nervous, and wanted to say no. But Kalinin nominated me deputy director of Omutninsk.

#16

Tularemia is a disease that can be transmitted from wild animals to humans. It is highly infectious, but rarely spreads from one person to another. It can be fatal in 30 percent of untreated cases.

#17

The Soviet Union tested a vaccine-resistant tularemia weapon in monkeys in 1982. It turned out that the testing area had been swept clean of all signs of human and animal occupation, and the monkeys’ corpses had to be incinerated.

#18

I was a cadet intern at the Tomsk Medical Institute in 1973, and was given an assignment to analyze a mysterious outbreak of tularemia on the German-Soviet front shortly before the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. I thought I had solved the puzzle, but my professor told me to forget I had ever said what I did.

#19

The Soviet Union’s involvement with biological warfare began long before World War II. I learned that the Soviet Union’s involvement with biological warfare began long before World War II, and that many people had died conducting tests on animals.

#20

The Bolshevik government plunged into a savage conflict with anti-Communist forces in 1917, and by the time hostilities ended in 1921, as many as ten million people had died. The government turned to typhus, a disease that could be controlled and contained, and used it to fight their enemies.

#21

The Soviet Union began breeding typhus in the labs and spraying it in an aerosol form from airplanes in the 1930s. The first Soviet facility used for biological warfare research was the Leningrad Military Academy.

#22

The Soviet Union’s approach to biological warfare took a new turn in September 1945, when Soviet troops in Manchuria overran a Japanese military facility known as Water Purification Unit 731. They experimented with anthrax, dysentery, cholera, and plague on U. S. , British, and Commonwealth POWs.