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

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