Bio-Hazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World â Told From Inside by the Man Who Ran it
Biological warfare is the use of weapons that cause death by disease. The largest and most sophisticated biological weapons program in the world, which cultivated and stockpiled anthrax virus, brucellosis, the plague and genetically altered strains of small pox, employed more than 6000 people at over 100 facilities in the former Soviet Union. For 15 years, ending in 1992, Dr. Ken Alibek, a doctor of medicine and a Ph.D. in microbiology, was the scientific leader of Bio-Preparat, the civilian branch of that secret biological weapons program, masquerading as a pharmaceutical company. In 1992, Dr. Alibek defected to the United States. Several years later, he wrote âBio-Hazard,â a book detailing the development of biological weapons, the horrors of his former life and why he chose to defect. This is a two-part program with Dr. Ken Alibek, recorded in 1999.
Dr. Ken Alibek recommends âPrevent,â by Richard Preston & âVector,â by Robin Cook.
Originally Broadcast: May 11, 1999
Barry Vogel, Esq. is the host and producer. Ignacio Ayala is the assistant producer.
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Dr. Ken Alibek â "Soviet Germ Warfare Part 1"
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