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Germs: Biological Weapons and
America's Secret War
Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls,
bomb-lets spewing anthrax spores over
battlefields, tiny vials of plague
scattered in Times Square -- these are the
poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons
of mass destruction that can be made in a
simple laboratory. In this groundbreaking
work of investigative journalism, Judith
Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William
Broad of The New York Times uncover
the truth about biological weapons and
show why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are
fast becoming our worst national
nightmare.
Germs shows how a small group of
scientists and senior officials persuaded
President Bill Clinton to launch a
controversial multibillion-dollar program
to detect a germ attack on U.S. soil and
to aid its victims -- a program that, so
far, is struggling to provide real
protection. Based on hundreds of
interviews with scientists and senior
officials, as well as on recently
declassified documents and on-site
reporting from the former Soviet Union's
sinister bio-weapons labs, Germs shows us
bio-warriors past and present at work at
their trade.
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