| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
CNS occasional paper ; no. 18 |
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CNS occasional paper ; no. 18
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| Contents |
Translator's notes. -- Introduction. -- Part I: M.I. Levi's interesting stories. -- Part II: The anti-plague system in Russia and Western media. -- Part III: Biographies of P.N. Burgasov and I.V. Domaradsky. -- Part IV: Concluding remarks by the editors. -- Appendixes |
| Summary |
Throughout the twentieth century, the 2nd Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Health (MOH) directed a wide-ranging 'anti-plague system' with the main objective of protecting the country from endemic and imported dread diseases such as plague, anthrax, tularemia, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and others with either a natural or laboratory-based etiology. In addition, it had an important, three phased role in the Soviet Union's offensive biological warfare (BW) program: to provide training to the BW program's scientific workers on biosafety practices; to submit cultures of especially virulent pathogens to that program's research and development institutions; and, in some instances, weaponize some bacterial species |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (CNS, viewed Sept. 5, 2013) |
| Subject |
Soviet Union. Ministerstvo zdravookhranenii︠a︡
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union. Ministerstvo zdravookhranenii︠a︡ fast (OCoLC)fst00515549 |
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Biological weapons -- Soviet Union
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Communicable diseases -- Military aspects -- Soviet Union
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Epidemics -- Soviet Union -- Prevention
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Biological weapons.
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Epidemics -- Prevention.
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Soviet Union.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Toppin, James W., editor
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Zilinskas, Raymond A., editor
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James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, issuing body
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| ISBN |
0989236137 |
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9780989236133 |
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