Biohazard
by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman · first published 1999
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Ken Alibek's straightforward story of massive, state-sponsored bio weapons research by the Soviet Union and Modern Russia was too far ahead of its' time. Looking back with post-9/11 vision, "too far" was a mere two years ahead of its' time. Biohazard is an eyeopening autobiography of Ken Alibek, AKA Kanatzhan (Kanat) Alibekov, a leading bio weapons developer and Soviet officer of Kazakh ancestry who was determined to expose the former Soviet Union's extensive covert biological weapons program in the 1990's. It was first published by Hutchinson in the United Kingdom in 1999, then re-rel
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Biohazard by Ken Alibek is pretty descriptive of Soviet bio research efforts and denials of such. It does, however, read like fiction.
on “Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim” ↗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…
on “Demon in the Freezer” ↗Can highly recommend Ken Alibek's book about the Russian biological warfare programme "Biohazard". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek
on “The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)” ↗There's an absolutely terrifying book by Ken Alibeck ("Biohazard") about the Soviet secret chemical and biological warfare programme. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek)
on “Kim Jong-Nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say” ↗…can't collaborate as easily either. Also you can read books like The Hot Zone (sensationalized, but shows they weren't doing anything that wasn't happening at the same time in academia) or Ken Alibek's BioHazard, both of which describe the past history of bioweapons research and how it wasn't 10 years ahead of anyone else (in the USSR or the US). It was about where everyone else was, but applying it maybe 2 or…
on “Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out” ↗…about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life with widespread education, without barriers to entry that we have here in USA. Ken Alibek (https://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological...) was one of the examples of going from village to bacteriological weapon design and on the strength of being smart.
on “The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenges of reversal (2020)” ↗I think bringing up Biohazard[0], a book about soviet bio warfare experiments and the culture they were conducted in seems pertinent. In particular it is illuminating, if not factually accurate, how Soviets covered up accidents at…
on “Newly Discovered Smallpox Samples” ↗I read Biohazard by Ken Alibek years ago and the current situation reminds me of one of the anecdotes in it. He was a Soviet scientist in charge of creating bio-weapons- the book starts with him planning world war 3.…
on “The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins” ↗…think the conspiracy theorists are hoping for something more impressive other than "it was a lab accident." History has taught us that lab accidents are a bit more likely than we'd like to admit - see "Biohazard" by Ken Alibek. The Soviet Union (and China) had several accidental release incidents during his time in Biopreparat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek As it stands, we have no way of knowing…
on “New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan” ↗“Biohazard”, Ken Alibek https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116867/ “The 1979 Anthrax leak in Sverdlovsk” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdl... From memory: Ken devised a…
on “The Sheep Incident (2008)” ↗