Book ID: CBB676890168

The Soviet Union's agricultural biowarfare programme: ploughshares to swords (2021)

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Anthony Rimmington (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 258
Language: English

This book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed Ekologiya – which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was the largest offensive agricultural biowarfare project the world has ever seen and Soviet anti-crop and anti-livestock weapons had the capability to inflict enormous damage on Western agriculture. Beginning in the early 1970s, there was a new focus within the Soviet agricultural biowarfare programme on molecular biology and the development of genetically modified agents. A key characteristic of the Ekologiya project was the creation of mobilization production facilities. These ostensibly civil manufacturing plants incorporated capacity for production of biowarfare agents in wartime emergency. During the 1990s-2000s, the counter-proliferation efforts undertaken by the US and UK played a major role in preventing the transfer of Ekologiya scientists, technologies and pathogens to Iran and other countries of potential proliferation concern. (Amazon)

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Review Miriam F. Lipton (April 2022) Review of "The Soviet Union's agricultural biowarfare programme: ploughshares to swords". Technology and Culture (pp. 568-570). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Amalia Leguizamón
Derek Byerlee
Johnson, Ian
Alvandi, Roham
Zilinskas, Raymond A.
Welsh, Rick
Concepts
Technology and war; technology and the military
Biotechnology
Agriculture
Research
Military technology
Cold War
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Argentina
France
Europe
Institutions
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
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