| Contents Notes |
Foreword -- A note about sources -- Chap. 1. What if ...? -- Chap. 2. 1999 -- Chap. 3. Unit 731 -- Chap. 4. Arms race -- Chap. 5. The Soviet progamme -- Chap. 6. CIA -- Chap. 7. The treaty -- Chap. 8. Cheating -- Chap. 9. Incident at Sverdlovsk -- Chap. 10. The Juniper channel -- Chap. 11. The defector -- Chap. 12. Protests -- Chap. 13. Inspection -- Chap. Gorbachev -- Chap. 15. The Soviet visit -- Chap. 16. Yeltsin -- Chap. 17. Trilateral agreement -- Chap. 18. Alibekov -- Chap. 19. A walk through Pokrov -- Chap. 20. The Pfizer fiasco -- Chap. 21. Postscript : Russia -- Chap. 22. Rhodesia, 1978 -- Chap. 23. Nothing personal -- Chap. 24. Wouter Basson -- Chap. 25. Gert -- Chap. 26. Truth and reconciliation -- Chap. 27. Revelations -- Chap. 28. Arrest -- Chap. 29. Iraq -- Chap. 30. The inspectors -- Chap. 31. Rogue state -- Chap. 32. Apocalypse delayed -- Chap. 33. Walkers, floppers & goners -- Chap. 34. The future -- Chap. 35. Geneva -- Appendix 1. The BWC -- Appendix 2. Description of BW agents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. This book tells the stories of the secret battles that are still being waged in many nations, stories filled with international espionage, deceptions, and treachery. Recently, defectors and covert sources from third-world governments such as Iraq have revealed active biological weapons programs, despite international arms inspectors' attempts to eradicate them. A U.S. war game to prepare for a North Korean biological attack went so horribly wrong that the results are still classified. In South Africa, the use of bioweapons represents one of the last untold secrets of the apartheid battles, while in Zimbabwe, people are still dying of anthrax from the dirty wars of independence fought two decades ago. Fringe cults, apocalyptic madmen, and terrorists groups everywhere claim to own bioweapons, and are threatening to use them. Major Western cities are busily planning defenses against such an attack. Researched across four continents with exceptional access to many sources from the United Nations, U.S. Department of Defense, and various civilian and military intelligence agencies, and using previously classified government documents, the authors have written the definitive account of the state of biological warfare in the world today. |
