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020			_a9780674047709 (alkaline paper)
040			_aICU/DLC _dDLC _dSipr
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100	1		_aLeitenberg, Milton
245	1	4	_aThe Soviet biological weapons program : _ba history / _cMilton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas, with Jens H. Kuhn
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2012
300			_a921 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe Soviet Union's biological warfare program, 1926-1972 -- Beginnings of the "modern" Soviet BW program, 1970-1977 -- The USSR Ministry of Defense facilities and the Soviet biological warfare program -- The open-air testing of biological weapons by Aralsk-7 on Vozrozhdeniye Island -- Defensive activities against biological warfare carried out in the Soviet civilian sector -- Biopreparat's role in the Soviet BW program and its survival in Russia -- Biopreparat's State Research Center for Applied Microbiology (SRCAM) -- All-Union Research Institute of Molecular Biology SPA ("Vector") -- Biopreparat facilities at Leningrad, Lyubuchany, and Stepnogorsk -- Soviet biological weapons and doctrines for their use -- Assessments of Soviet biological warfare activities by Western intelligence services -- United States covert biological warfare disinformation -- Distinguishing between offensive and defensive biological warfare activities -- Soviet allegations of the use of biological weapons by the United States -- Sverdlovsk 1979: the release of bacillus anthracis spores from a Soviet Ministry of Defense facility and its consequences -- Allegations of Soviet responsibility for the use of mycotoxins -- Collaboration of Warsaw Pact states in the USSR's biological warfare program -- The question of biological weapons proliferation from the USSR biological warfare program -- Recalcitrant Russian policies in a parallel area: chemical weapon demilitarization -- The USSR, Russia and biological warfare arms control -- The Gorbachev years: the Soviet biological weapons program, 1985-1992 -- Boris Yeltsin to the present -- United States and international efforts to prevent proliferation of biological weapons expertise from the former Soviet Union.
650		7	_aBW _xhistory _zUSSR
650		7	_abiological arms control _xhistory _zUSSR
700	1		_aZilinskas, Raymond A.
700	1		_aKuhn, Jens H.
852			_h623.458/9 _lLeitenberg
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