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The Soviet biological weapons program [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn
| The Soviet biological weapons program [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn |
| Autore | Leitenberg Milton |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 921 pages ) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 358/.3882094709045 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZilinskasRaymond A
KuhnJens H |
| Soggetto topico |
Biological weapons - Soviet Union - History
Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History Biological arms control - Soviet Union - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-674-07023-2
0-674-06526-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program, 1918- 1972 -- 2. Beginnings of the "Modern" Soviet BW program, 1970- 1977 -- 3. USSR Ministry of Defense Facilities and its Biological Warfare Program -- 4. Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- 5. Soviet Civilian Sector Defenses against Biological Warfare and Infectious Diseases -- 6. Biopreparat's Role in the Soviet Biological Warfare Program and Its Survival in Russia -- 7. Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- 8. All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector" -- 9. Biopreparat Facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- 10. Soviet Biological Weapons and Doctrines for Their Use -- 11. Distinguishing between Offensive and Defensive Biological Warfare Activities -- 12. Assessments of Soviet Biological Warfare Activities by Western Intelligence Services -- 13. United States Covert Biological Warfare Disinformation -- 14. Soviet Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States -- 15. Sverdlovsk 1979: The Release of Bacillus anthracis Spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense Facility and Its Consequences -- 16. Soviet Research on Mycotoxins -- 17. Assistance by Warsaw Pact States to the Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program -- 18. The Question of Proliferation from the USSR Biological Warfare Program -- 19. Recalcitrant Russian Policies in a Parallel Area: Chemical Weapon Demilitarization -- 20. The Soviet Union, Russia, and Biological Warfare Arms Control -- 21. The Gorbachev Years: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program, 1985- 1992 -- 22. Boris Yeltsin to the Present -- 23. United States and International Efforts to Prevent Proliferation of Biological Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- Annex A. Annex B. Annex C. Annex D. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Annex A: Acronyms and Russian Terms -- Annex B: Glossary of Biological Warfare-Related Words and Terms -- Annex C: A Joint Decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, USSR, and the USSR Council of Ministers, Dated 24 June 1981 -- Annex D: Joint US/UK/Russian Statement of Biological Weapons -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452772803321 |
Leitenberg Milton
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Soviet biological weapons program : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn
| The Soviet biological weapons program : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn |
| Autore | Leitenberg Milton |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 921 pages ) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 358/.3882094709045 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZilinskasRaymond A
KuhnJens H |
| Soggetto topico |
Biological weapons - Soviet Union - History
Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History Biological arms control - Soviet Union - History |
| ISBN |
0-674-07023-2
0-674-06526-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program, 1918- 1972 -- 2. Beginnings of the "Modern" Soviet BW program, 1970- 1977 -- 3. USSR Ministry of Defense Facilities and its Biological Warfare Program -- 4. Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- 5. Soviet Civilian Sector Defenses against Biological Warfare and Infectious Diseases -- 6. Biopreparat's Role in the Soviet Biological Warfare Program and Its Survival in Russia -- 7. Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- 8. All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector" -- 9. Biopreparat Facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- 10. Soviet Biological Weapons and Doctrines for Their Use -- 11. Distinguishing between Offensive and Defensive Biological Warfare Activities -- 12. Assessments of Soviet Biological Warfare Activities by Western Intelligence Services -- 13. United States Covert Biological Warfare Disinformation -- 14. Soviet Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States -- 15. Sverdlovsk 1979: The Release of Bacillus anthracis Spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense Facility and Its Consequences -- 16. Soviet Research on Mycotoxins -- 17. Assistance by Warsaw Pact States to the Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program -- 18. The Question of Proliferation from the USSR Biological Warfare Program -- 19. Recalcitrant Russian Policies in a Parallel Area: Chemical Weapon Demilitarization -- 20. The Soviet Union, Russia, and Biological Warfare Arms Control -- 21. The Gorbachev Years: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program, 1985- 1992 -- 22. Boris Yeltsin to the Present -- 23. United States and International Efforts to Prevent Proliferation of Biological Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- Annex A. Annex B. Annex C. Annex D. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Annex A: Acronyms and Russian Terms -- Annex B: Glossary of Biological Warfare-Related Words and Terms -- Annex C: A Joint Decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, USSR, and the USSR Council of Ministers, Dated 24 June 1981 -- Annex D: Joint US/UK/Russian Statement of Biological Weapons -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779139903321 |
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Leitenberg Milton
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Soviet biological weapons program : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn
| The Soviet biological weapons program : a history / / Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn |
| Autore | Leitenberg Milton |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 921 pages ) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 358/.3882094709045 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZilinskasRaymond A
KuhnJens H |
| Soggetto topico |
Biological weapons - Soviet Union - History
Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History Biological arms control - Soviet Union - History |
| ISBN |
0-674-07023-2
0-674-06526-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program, 1918- 1972 -- 2. Beginnings of the "Modern" Soviet BW program, 1970- 1977 -- 3. USSR Ministry of Defense Facilities and its Biological Warfare Program -- 4. Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- 5. Soviet Civilian Sector Defenses against Biological Warfare and Infectious Diseases -- 6. Biopreparat's Role in the Soviet Biological Warfare Program and Its Survival in Russia -- 7. Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- 8. All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Scientific-Production Association "Vector" -- 9. Biopreparat Facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- 10. Soviet Biological Weapons and Doctrines for Their Use -- 11. Distinguishing between Offensive and Defensive Biological Warfare Activities -- 12. Assessments of Soviet Biological Warfare Activities by Western Intelligence Services -- 13. United States Covert Biological Warfare Disinformation -- 14. Soviet Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States -- 15. Sverdlovsk 1979: The Release of Bacillus anthracis Spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense Facility and Its Consequences -- 16. Soviet Research on Mycotoxins -- 17. Assistance by Warsaw Pact States to the Soviet Union's Biological Warfare Program -- 18. The Question of Proliferation from the USSR Biological Warfare Program -- 19. Recalcitrant Russian Policies in a Parallel Area: Chemical Weapon Demilitarization -- 20. The Soviet Union, Russia, and Biological Warfare Arms Control -- 21. The Gorbachev Years: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program, 1985- 1992 -- 22. Boris Yeltsin to the Present -- 23. United States and International Efforts to Prevent Proliferation of Biological Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- Annex A. Annex B. Annex C. Annex D. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Annex A: Acronyms and Russian Terms -- Annex B: Glossary of Biological Warfare-Related Words and Terms -- Annex C: A Joint Decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, USSR, and the USSR Council of Ministers, Dated 24 June 1981 -- Annex D: Joint US/UK/Russian Statement of Biological Weapons -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825123003321 |
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Leitenberg Milton
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Soviet biological weapons program and its legacy in today's Russia / / Raymond A. Zilinskas
| The Soviet biological weapons program and its legacy in today's Russia / / Raymond A. Zilinskas |
| Autore | Zilinskas Raymond A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : National Defense University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (60 pages) |
| Disciplina | 623.4/516 |
| Collana | Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, occasional paper |
| Soggetto topico |
Biological weapons - Soviet Union - History
Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History Biological arms control - Soviet Union - History Biological weapons - Russia (Federation) Biological arms control - Russia (Federation) Biological arms control - United States Biological arms control Biological warfare Biological weapons |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910707465403321 |
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Zilinskas Raymond A.
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| Washington, DC : , : National Defense University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Soviet Union's agricultural biowarfare programme : ploughshares to swords / / Anthony Rimmington
| The Soviet Union's agricultural biowarfare programme : ploughshares to swords / / Anthony Rimmington |
| Autore | Rimmington Anthony |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Disciplina | 358.38 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biological warfare - Soviet Union - History
Biotechnology - Research - Soviet Union - History |
| ISBN | 3-030-73843-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910485603703321 |
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Rimmington Anthony
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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