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Title: Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900 by W. Seth Carus, National Defense University, Center for Counterproliferation Research ISBN: 1-4101-0023-5 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating, but not up-to-date
Comment: In this fascinating book, the authors look at the uses that biological agents have been put to, from 1900 to 2000. In a scholarly, no-nonsense manner, the uses of biological agents for terrorism or crime are examined, leaving no stone unturned. The early chapters examine the agents used, how they were acquired, how they are used, and the purposes for their use. Subsequent chapters look at case studies of the actual use of biological agents, their threatened use (often when no actual agents where possessed), cases where groups or individuals were found to possess such agents, and finally groups that are apparently looking to acquire biological agents (including Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida).
I have read a group of books on bioterrorism lately, and I must say that this one ranks right up there with the best of them. Not a doomsday book, instead, this book treats it as another subject for study, allowing the user to get a realistic feel for how biological agents have been used up to the year 2000.
And, it is in my last point that my real complaint against this book lies. As this book only covers bioterrorism and biocrimes through 2000, it does not cover the 2001 anthrax attack against American governmental officials and media personalities. This attack was definitely the most effective bioterrorist attack yet, and no historic study can be considered complete without it.
But, I must say that I read the 2002 edition, and subsequent editions might be edited to take this bioterrorist attack into account. If that happens, then I will be the first to declare the book a bioterrorism masterpiece. As it is, it is still a very good book, one well worth reading for anyone interested in bioterrorism.
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Title: Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare by Tom Mangold, Jeff Goldberg ISBN: 0312263791 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman ISBN: 0385334966 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat (BCSIA Studies in International Security) by Joshua Lederberg, William S. Cohen ISBN: 0262621282 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Viruses, Plagues, and History by Michael B. A. Oldstone ISBN: 0195134222 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad ISBN: 0684871599 Publisher: Touchstone Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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