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

Scary as hell. A necessary read for our day and age.

Kanatjan Alibekov was in charge of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union's bioweapons factories. The Soviet's system that produced and stored the largest biological weapons stock pile the world has ever known. He had massive stockpiles of Anthrax, Plague, Smallpox, Marburg, Ebola and too many others to list under his supervision. He had a list of first strike areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle.His story is engrossing. The health effects that he has suffered because of his work are amazing. He has lost all sense of smell and can't eat butter, cheese, eggs, mayonaise, sausages, chocolate or candy. He takes two or three pills of allergy medicine a day minimum. He must rub ointment on his skin because the natural lubricants have been lost. The numerous vacinations he had to take over the years for work with infectious disease's has caused many complications with his health.This is his story as well as the story of the Soviet government and their deceipt of the world as well as their deceipt of their own citizens. Brainwashing younger generations to believe that the United States would stop at nothing to destroy them. This book is truly engrossing. Kanatjan Alibekov defected to the United States and changed his name to ken Alibek and began helping the United States with information to combat the massive Soviet stockpiles. And his information has proven to the United States how far we are behind but then again, we didn't break the treaty against production of bioweapons. Many of the scientists also fled to Iraq and Iran and continued production there.This book is balanced and informative as well as interesting. It is a bit unnerving but also fascinating. A must read for anyone.

This book shows just how scary the world is and could be. Nuclear weapons are not the only thing that the world has to worry about. The book itself is not too technical and except for not being able to pronounce some of the diseases it was not that hard of a read.

First and foremost...I am grateful this got published. Little did I realize that the US and USSR and Bioweapons are a serious problem and mental health is linked to the drugs and weapons made from viruses and cultures from around the world. Ken Alibek (real name Kanjian Alibekov) is literally Dr. Death in the flesh. He was the person that oversaw some of the biggest viruses found from Plum Island, Sverdlovsk and more. Michael Rodgers biohazard as well brings that same clarity that Ken does but Ken goes more in depth. Michael had a civilian perspective of what happened from after ww2 Unit 731 and Manhattan project to Bioprepriat and more. Ken Literally shows on the page the toxic chemicals and cultures and environment surrounding the dangers of Biological weapons and biochemistry and tech. Hell even disclosed that some of the illness's ranging from Q fever and tularemia were his creations with his colleagues. Even witnessing the lab leaks and spills from poor procedures not followed by his colleagues. He is quite knowledgeable in the microbiology and chemical virology and would recommend this to anyone who is keen to building a stronger understanding on future threats pertaining to health. I want to know what really caused covid 19 and think this is a good start to how biological viruses are made from a person who created this horrific weapons program. Literally gripped me the entire time knowing that all this really happened from 1975-1999.

There is no more relevant book to read in September, October, and November of 2001 than this book. The writing is exceptionally clear and some parts read like the gripping spy story that it really is.The author, a top soviet bioweapons scientist, wrote this book because The West has not taken him seriously about the bioweapon technology that was developed in the late 1980's and early 1990's in the Soviet Union. This is one of the scariest books you will ever read in your life, but knowledge is power, and this is perhaps the most powerful book I have read in my life.Do you know why Nixon considered his war on cancer in 1973 to be his finest achievement?Do you know why the Russians so easily agreed to disarm their nuclear programs with the Salt, Salt II, and Start Treaties of the 1970's and 1980's??Do you want to know how a bioweapons facility is built to protect itself, and how things can go terrible wrong in several facilities over the course of a decade ??What happens to you or a friend when you accidentally inject yourself with a bioweapon you yourself have developed for warfare ??Do you realize that after injecting yourself your colleagues might look at yourself in a new light, more a guinea pig than as someone to be saved ??Is it more important to build a nuclear shelter in your basement or a positive vapor pressure in your attic ??The answers can be found in this book.

An anxiety inducing look into the life of a brilliant man and his moral dilemma as a Physician. Remarkable and terrifying story.

This is an extremely interesting book about the 1980 Biological Warfare Programme in USSR. The author was part of the Programme and explains the political background and the industrial programme behind the research and production of biological agents to be used in bio-warfare. He mentions the Libyan and Iraqi programmes too but not in detail. It is quite a fascinating book because it details the quantity of bio material produced via the different programmes and how the different bacteria and virus were chosen (in relation to the their stability, virulence, durability, etc. etc). It is a technical book but it does not use jargon and complicated medical terms. It is the best book that I have found on this topic until now and I strongly recommend it. If you are interested to expand your knowledge in relation to the use of CBW, another interesting book is "Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare, 1975-1980" by Glenn Cross.

whoa, i bought this book ages ago (back when i was still unhappily married. as far as being a geek, with attack pilot hours, this is a great cold war veteran book that is now even more freaked out by CRISPR technology. OMG what will the scientists cook up now

I came to know about this book from the index pages of David Hoffman's Pulitzer prize-winning book - The Dead Hand. Biohazard reveals the heights of insanity of a ruthless system hell bent on using any means to deter its rival as well as restrict its own people from defecting to the other side . One of the chilling aspects I encountered was that once you are infected by a pathogen from accidental exposure, your co researchers see you more as a guinea pig than instead try to save your life as in the case of Nikolai Ustinov. One way or the other, Russia is undoubtedly responsible for the threats of nuclear / biological terrorism we're facing today. There is a real possibility that biopreparat may still be functioning today covertly for harmful purposes as hinted by the author in the last few pages. As one reviewer rightly pointed, you may read this book but be warned - it'll damage your view on our species..Only humans are capable of such horrific evil.

Anyone interested in biological warfare should read this book. A real look on the inside-workings on the workings of the bioweaponeering-programs of the soviet union.

Texto con estilo narrativo con las experiencias del Dr. Ken Alibeck, se pueden obtener muchas anecdotas y la filosofia del programa de guerra biológica de la URSS e inferir parte de la filosofia de la actual doctrina de empleo de Rusia.