Demon in the Freezer

Re:Demon in the Freezer by gww on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @09:50AM (#11721893)

There is another fantastic book called "Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It " By Ken Alibek.

For example, the USSR supposedly had an annual production of weaponized Smallpox measured in tons, which is a ridiculous amount of virus.

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Re:Demon in the Freezer by hello_asdf on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:22AM (#11722581)

I was under the impression that this author had been mostly discredited due to his discussions on the Soviets combining various other contagions and smallpox being highly improbable [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek#Criticism

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Re:Demon in the Freezer by gww on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:54PM (#11725308)

I think he fluffed the book up a bit, but I believe some of the assertions about their research activities and production have been confirmed.

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Re:Demon in the Freezer by udba on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @10:03AM (#11721990)

The Hot Zone is another great book about biological warfare. The first chapter detailing the life of Ebola's Patient 0 from the moment he contracted the disease to when he dies is blood-curdling.

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