Review: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A bit dated, this insider story from a defector high up in the Soviet biological weapons program details his career and Soviet advances with anthrax, plague, glanders, etc. Most dramatic moments come around a lethal hot zone infection and an Aral sea island where chained monkeys proved unfortunate test subjects. Most interestingly to me was the insider's view of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and the disruption of the Soviet state that followed, ultimately leading to the Kazakh's informal emigration to the U.S.

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