Biohazard (book)
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'''''Biohazard''''', subtitled '''''The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It''''', is the title of a 1999 [[book]] by former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[biological warfare]] researcher [[Kanatjan Alibekov|Ken Alibek]] that purports to expose the former Soviet Union's extensive covert [[biological weapons]] program.
The book is a semi-romanticized auto-biography depicting the life of a bioweapons developer. It was first published by Hutchinson in the [[United Kingdom]] in [[1999]], then re-released by Arrow Books in [[2000]].
For the most part, the book's assertions recently have been confirmed by [[United States|U.S.]] and other [[Western world|Western]] [[Microbiology|microbiological]] and bioweapons authorities, while site-visiting many of the laboratory and weapons production sites and cataloguing the pathogens. The vast Soviet Union biological weapons infrastructure dwarfed any known Western bioweapons program.
==The book==
Alibek, K. and S. Handelman. ''Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran it.'' 1999. Delta (2000) ISBN 0-385-33496-6 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385334966]
[[Category:Biological warfare]]
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