A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.

List of Illustrations -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Origins: The Launch of the Moscow Strand of the Red Army's Offensive Biological Warfare Programme -- 2. The Creation of a BW Prison Laboratory: The Bacteriological Convent -- 3. From Defence to Offence: The Development of the Red Army's Biological Warfare Facilities at Vlasikha -- 4. The Soviet Union's Secret of Secrets: The Creation of BW Facilities on the Island of Gorodomyla -- 5. The Rise and Fall of a Working-Class Hero: Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov, Lead Scientist of the Soviet Union's Offensive BW Programme -- 6. From Shikhany to Vozrozhdenie Island: The Selection of Open-Air Proving Grounds for the Soviet Offensive BW Programme -- 7. The Soviet Union's Enigma BW Programme: Military Biological Research in Leningrad -- 8. From Flanders to Glanders: Soviet Military-Veterinary BW Programmes -- 9. On the Brink of Bacteriological War: Stalin's BW Programme and the Second World War -- 10. Stalin's BW Archipelago: Mapping-Out a New Post-War BW Network -- 11. From Swords to Ploughshares: The Scientific and Industrial Achievements of Stalin's BW Archipelago --12. Yesterday Today: Stalin's Legacy and Russia's Current Military Biological Network -- Notes -- Index