The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History

by Milton Leitenberg, Jens H. Kuhn, Raymond A. Zilinskas

Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund a hugely expensive weapons program that added nothing to the country's security. This history is the first attempt to understand the broad scope of the USSR's offensive biological weapons research--its inception in the 1920s, its growth between 1970 and 1990, and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047702
• ISBN13: 9780674047709
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 960 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"