Biological warfare has already begun...
In the former Soviet Union the military has perfected smallpox, anthrax and Plague as biological warheads on intercontinental missiles that can reach London, New York, and Los Angeles. There is no evidence that Russia has destroyed the technology. In South Africa and Zimbabwe, biological weapons have already been used to kill innocent civilians. In Iraq, a covert offensive biological warfare programme capable of delivering anthrax through "drones of death" threatens neighbouring countries and will soon threaten the whole region. Biological terrorism - the use of deadly bacteria and exotic viruses to destroy, maim, infect or incapacitate the enemy - is now widely acknowledged to be inevitable. A millionth of a gram of inhaled anthrax, delivered through a purse-sized atomizer spray, kills one person; a mere kilogram, delivered through an ordinary crop duster, kills an entire city. Recipes for making biological weapons are available in books and on the internet.
'Plague Wars' is the most important and revealing book every published on the subject. Here is a factual account that reads like fiction; a taut investigation behind the headlines which identifies the real Plague Warriors, those behind the new weapons of horror, and the men and women dedicated to defending us against them.
