The Soviet Union's agricultural biowarfare programme : ploughshares to swords / / Anthony Rimmington

• Autore: Rimmington Anthony
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 pages)
• Disciplina: 358.38
• Soggetto topico: Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History; Biotechnology - Research - Soviet Union - History
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Origins: The International Race to Develop Anti-crop and Anti-livestock Biological Weapons -- The Initial Soviet Post-War Anti-crop Biological Warfare Programme -- The Trigger: The US Offensive Biological Warfare Programme Targeting the Soviet Union -- Chapter 3: Codename Ekologiya: Khrushchev and the Launch of the Soviet Union's Large-Scale Agricultural Biowarfare Programme -- The Generals in Charge: Military Oversight of the Ekologiya Programme -- First Steps: Pursuit of the Ekologiya Programme at the Palace on the Znamenskoe-Sadki Estate -- The Concentration of Veterinary BW Facilities in the Vladimir Region -- The Gvardeiskii Experimental Proving Ground: Biological Warfare on the Kazakh Steppe -- An Invisible Network: Visiting Western Plant Pathology and Veterinary Specialists Are Unaware of the Existence of the New Agricultural BW Facilities -- Numbers Employed in the Ministry of Agriculture's BW Programme -- The Targeting of China by the Ekologiya Programme? -- Chapter 4: From Estonia to Sakhalin Island: The Expansion of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture's Toxic Archipelago in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Interdepartmental Council and the New Focus on Molecular Biology -- The Development of Linkages to the USSR Ministry of Defence, Biopreparat and Other Branches of the Soviet BW Programme -- The Expansion of the Ekologiya Programme and the Opening of New Facilities in Estonia, Armenia and Tajikistan -- Harnessing Virulent Plant Pathogens from the Soviet Network of Monitoring Stations and Plant Breeding Facilities -- Africa as a Source of Novel Pathogens? The International Dimensions of the Ekologiya Programme -- The Emergence of the New Scientific Leadership of the Soviet Anti-crop BW Programme. ; The Maintenance of a Strict Regime of Secrecy Within the GUNIiEPU Network: Security Measures in Place at Ekologiya Facilities in Uzbekistan and Georgia -- The Launch of the Flora Programme and the Development of Tactical Herbicides for the Military -- Alibek's Account of the Early Termination of GUNIiEPU's BW Programme -- Chapter 5: Heart of Darkness: The Creation of Reserve Mobilisation Capacity for Production of Viral Agents -- The Soviet System of Mobilisation Preparedness -- The Creation of Reserve Mobilisation Production Facilities for Anti-agricultural Agents -- BW Mobilisation Capacity at the Pokrov Biologics Plant -- Identification of Mobilisation Capacity at Pokrov by Western Visitors -- The Nature of Activity at Pokrov: Linkages to an Alleged Soviet Variola Virus Programme -- Delivery Systems for Weaponised Agricultural BW Agents -- Chapter 6: Through a Glass Darkly: Analysis of the Soviet Union's Military Agricultural R& -- D Programmes -- Western Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Agricultural Biowarfare Programme -- Central Asia's "Sverdlovsk Incident"? The Rinderpest (Cattle Plague) Programme and the First Major Disease Outbreak from an Ekologiya Laboratory -- The Pursuit of FMD Research Programmes by VNIYaI -- Construction of FMD Vaccine Facilities by the Soviet Union -- VNIIVViM's Focus on Anthrax -- R& -- D Programmes in Vol'ginskii and Gvardeiskii Focused on African Swine Fever (ASF) and African Horse Sickness (AHS) -- Sheeppox, Goatpox and Fowlpox Viruses -- R& -- D Programmes Conducted by Soviet Anti-crop BW Facilities: Rice Blast (Magnaporthe grisea) and Rice Bacteriosis (Xanthomonas oryzae) -- Late Blight of Potatoes (Phytophthora infestans) -- Diseases of Cereal Crops -- The Use of Insects to Transmit Plant Pathogens -- Offence or Defence? The Conflicting Narratives with Regard to the Ekologiya Programme. ; Chapter 7: From Military to Agro-industrial Complex: The Legacy of the Agricultural BW Programme in the Post-Soviet States -- The Collapse of the USSR and the Evacuation of Weapons Scientists to the Russian Federation -- The Transfer to Civil Control of Russia's Anti-crop and Anti-livestock Facilities -- Iran and the Proliferation Threat Arising in the Wake of the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- From Isolated Cold War Outpost to National Lead-Edge Plant Pathology Research Centre: The "Rediscovery" of Georgia's Soviet-Era Time Capsule -- The Role of Kobuleti in Soviet Military Programmes -- The UK Ministry of Defence Counters the Critical Proliferation Threat in Kobuleti: The Launch of the Pilot Biological Redirection Project -- The Yerevan Branch of VNIYaI Emerges as the Main Research Hub of the Armenian Veterinary Sector -- The Fate of Kazakhstan's Agricultural Biowarfare Facilities -- The Use of Former Soviet Weapons Scientists in the War Against Drugs -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Characteristics of the Ekologiya BW Programme -- Soviet Rationale for the Launch of the Ekologiya Programme -- The Achievements of the Soviet Agricultural BW Programme -- Ekologiya's Legacy -- Appendix A: Soviet/Russian Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Appendix B: Composition of the Scientific and Technical Council (NTS) and Interbranch Scientific and Technical Council for Molecular Biology and Genetics (MNTS) -- USSR Ministry of Agriculture's Scientific and Technical Council (NTS) -- Members of the Plant Section (23 December 1963)1 -- Interbranch Scientific and Technical Council for Molecular Biology and Genetics (MNTS) -- Members -- Appendix C: Lead Scientists in the Ekologiya Programme -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Soviet Union's Agricultural Biowarfare Programme
• ISBN: 3-030-73843-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910485603703321
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