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This is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR’s offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to en

This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It also explores wha

This publication gives a history of biological warfare (BW) from the prehistoric period through the present, with a section on the future of BW. The publication