Full name: Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

Authors: Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780684871592 0684871599

In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying--and less understood--than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack on American soil. In Germs, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to lay bare Washington's secret strategies for combating this deadly threat. Featuring an inside look at how germ warfare has been waged throughout history and what form its future might take (and in whose hands), Germs reads like a gripping detective story told by fascinating key figures: American and Soviet medical specialists who once made germ weapons but now fight their spread, FBI agents who track Islamic radicals, the Iraqis who built Saddam Hussein's secret arsenal, spies who travel the world collecting lethal microbes, and scientists who see ominous developments on the horizon. With clear scientific explanations and harrowing insights, Germs is a masterfully written--and timely--work of investigative journalism. Similar books: Biohazard by Ken Alibek And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Dopesick by Beth Macy Chernobyl by S. M. Plokhy Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes Toms River by Dan Fagin The Swamp by Michael Grunwald The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome War Against the Weak by Edwin Black The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin Where the Water Goes by David Owen The Big Necessity by Rose George The Victory Lab by Sasha Issenberg The Twilight of the Bombs by Richard Rhodes The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius The Jasons by Ann Finkbeiner Lab 257 by Michael C. Carroll