Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Origins: The International Race to Develop Anti-crop and Anti-livestock Biological Weapons -- The Initial Soviet Post-War Anti-crop Biological Warfare Programme -- The Trigger: The US Offensive Biological Warfare Programme Targeting the Soviet Union -- Chapter 3: Codename Ekologiya: Khrushchev and the Launch of the Soviet Union's Large-Scale Agricultural Biowarfare Programme -- The Generals in Charge: Military Oversight of the Ekologiya Programme -- First Steps: Pursuit of the Ekologiya Programme at the Palace on the Znamenskoe-Sadki Estate -- The Concentration of Veterinary BW Facilities in the Vladimir Region -- The Gvardeiskii Experimental Proving Ground: Biological Warfare on the Kazakh Steppe -- An Invisible Network: Visiting Western Plant Pathology and Veterinary Specialists Are Unaware of the Existence of the New Agricultural BW Facilities -- Numbers Employed in the Ministry of Agriculture's BW Programme -- The Targeting of China by the Ekologiya Programme? -- Chapter 4: From Estonia to Sakhalin Island: The Expansion of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture's Toxic Archipelago in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Interdepartmental Council and the New Focus on Molecular Biology -- The Development of Linkages to the USSR Ministry of Defence, Biopreparat and Other Branches of the Soviet BW Programme -- The Expansion of the Ekologiya Programme and the Opening of New Facilities in Estonia, Armenia and Tajikistan -- Harnessing Virulent Plant Pathogens from the Soviet Network of Monitoring Stations and Plant Breeding Facilities -- Africa as a Source of Novel Pathogens? The International Dimensions of the Ekologiya Programme -- The Emergence of the New Scientific Leadership of the Soviet Anti-crop BW Programme.

'Stalin's Secret Weapon' is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the infrastructure created by Stalin continues to form the core of Russia's current biological defense network. Anthony Rimmington has enjoyed privileged access to an array of newly available sources and materials, including declassified British Secret Intelligence Service reports. The evidence contained therein has led him to conclude that the program, with its network of dedicated facilities and proving grounds, was far more extensive than previously considered, easily outstripping those of the major Western powers

Die Untersuchung gibt zunächst einen Überblick über das innovative Potential der Biotechnologie in den Staaten der ehemaligen UdSSR am Beispiel der Landwirtschaft und der Medizin und macht die von der Biotechnologie ausgehenden erheblichen Umweltschäden deutlich. Im folgenden werden die unterschiedlichen Strategien der Nachfolgestaaten der UdSSR bei der Umgestaltung der Wissenschaftsinfrastruktur sowie die Möglichkeiten diskutiert, die sich für westliche Unternehmen in der Kooperation mit diesen Staaten auf dem Sektor biotechnologischer Forschung und Entwicklung eröffnen. Der Band umfaßt zudem einen umfangreichen Dokumentationsteil, der Auskunft über Forschungseinrichtungen, Produktionsstätten, Organisationen und Joint Ventures auf dem Gebiet der Biotechnologie in Rußland, der Ukraine und dem Baltikum gibt. (BIOst-Wpt)