If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is a timely and sobering book, but it is not exactly what its title suggests; it is not a DIY handbook for wannabe terrorists. Although it does indeed outline the technical requirements necessary for building a nuclear bomb and the other main WMD (weapons of mass destruction), the details necessary for manufacturing such devices have long been available on the web and in published manuals for many years now. Frank Barnaby's stated aim is to promote informed debate about the risks and measures needed to protect vulnerable democratic societies against the use of WMDs by international terrorists. As he says currently, the debate is far from informed, mainly because of the large amount of inaccurate information and misinformation in circulation.

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb seeks to inform the debate. And, thanks to Barnaby's deep knowledge of the subject and ability to communicate what are sometimes complex technical matters clearly, this aim is achieved. Juxtaposed with the more technical details of bomb-making are equally technical details of what the results are on the victims. How to Build a Nuclear Bomb should be essential reading for anyone claiming to have an opinion on the subject or thinking that they should be informed about the topic, even politicians and journalists.

Nuclear terrorism is a very real and growing problem. As Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Agency Council, warns the willingness of terrorists to commit suicide to achieve their evil aims makes the nuclear terrorism threat far more likely today than it was before September 11. Nevertheless, as Barnaby shows here, the threat posed by biological and chemical weapons is just as important as that of nuclear weapons, especially because so many of them are really easy to make. How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is not for those of a nervous disposition and does not make for comfortable bedtime reading. Maps, notes, websites and an index complete an invaluable book. --Douglas Palmer

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

an excellent over-view of world war 1., 25 Nov 2003
the book is very well presented and contains many photographs, plans and illustrations. it has been written by leading authorities on the subject in a form which makes it easy to read and understand. a must for anyone having an interest in the origins and progress of the first global conflict. high quality paper has been used (unusually for a paper back) and, at the price, i rate this a real bargain.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

an excellent over-view of world war 1., 25 Nov 2003
the book is very well presented and contains many photographs, plans and illustrations. it has been written by leading authorities on the subject in a form which makes it easy to read and understand. a must for anyone having an interest in the origins and progress of the first global conflict. high quality paper has been used (unusually for a paper back) and, at the price, i rate this a real bargain.

an important book on a neglected topic, 24 Aug 1998
The Japanese experiments on the Chinese during World War II have not gained the notoriety in this country accorded to the similar Nazi experiemnts, and this book helps correct that unfortunate deficit. It's all here, including a thorough history of the shameful American cover-up that immunized the Japanese doctors & military leaders responsible for this atrocity from prosecution. The book gets a bit dry at times, but remains an essential, and long-overdue, look at this shameful chapter in Japanese & American history.

This is the authoritative history of this subject !, 13 Jul 1998
Author Sheldon Harris has done acredible job in compiling the history of Japan's Biological Warfare Research in World War II. Using a wealth of primary sources, he has pieced together a comprehensive history of the horrors Japanese Army Doctors and Scientific Researchers inflicted upon thousands of people. Using many declassified reports and journals, he has masterfully pieced together the wide-reaching impact Japan's Biological Warfare Research had on Chinese, Russians, Manchurians, and possibly western POWs such as the American, British and Dutch. This is a must-have book for any scholar of World War Two.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

an excellent over-view of world war 1., 25 Nov 2003
the book is very well presented and contains many photographs, plans and illustrations. it has been written by leading authorities on the subject in a form which makes it easy to read and understand. a must for anyone having an interest in the origins and progress of the first global conflict. high quality paper has been used (unusually for a paper back) and, at the price, i rate this a real bargain.

an important book on a neglected topic, 24 Aug 1998
The Japanese experiments on the Chinese during World War II have not gained the notoriety in this country accorded to the similar Nazi experiemnts, and this book helps correct that unfortunate deficit. It's all here, including a thorough history of the shameful American cover-up that immunized the Japanese doctors & military leaders responsible for this atrocity from prosecution. The book gets a bit dry at times, but remains an essential, and long-overdue, look at this shameful chapter in Japanese & American history.

This is the authoritative history of this subject !, 13 Jul 1998
Author Sheldon Harris has done acredible job in compiling the history of Japan's Biological Warfare Research in World War II. Using a wealth of primary sources, he has pieced together a comprehensive history of the horrors Japanese Army Doctors and Scientific Researchers inflicted upon thousands of people. Using many declassified reports and journals, he has masterfully pieced together the wide-reaching impact Japan's Biological Warfare Research had on Chinese, Russians, Manchurians, and possibly western POWs such as the American, British and Dutch. This is a must-have book for any scholar of World War Two.

An excellent book!, 12 Apr 2005
I have always had a very strong interest in biological defence-not only the science, but also the history and politics of biological weaponry. My interest in the Soviet Programme started to grow when I read another relevant book in 2003, and this new book by Dr Kouzminov, a former Soviet intelligence officer, is undoubtedly a very informative book. It is indeed frightening to know that our highly protected biological defence laboratories have already been penetrated by those 'illegals'. It would be a lot more 'attractive' if the actual events in this book were more detailed. In fact, I am a bit surprised that nobody else has written any review! Personally, I strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the field of espionage and CB weapons.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

an excellent over-view of world war 1., 25 Nov 2003
the book is very well presented and contains many photographs, plans and illustrations. it has been written by leading authorities on the subject in a form which makes it easy to read and understand. a must for anyone having an interest in the origins and progress of the first global conflict. high quality paper has been used (unusually for a paper back) and, at the price, i rate this a real bargain.

an important book on a neglected topic, 24 Aug 1998
The Japanese experiments on the Chinese during World War II have not gained the notoriety in this country accorded to the similar Nazi experiemnts, and this book helps correct that unfortunate deficit. It's all here, including a thorough history of the shameful American cover-up that immunized the Japanese doctors & military leaders responsible for this atrocity from prosecution. The book gets a bit dry at times, but remains an essential, and long-overdue, look at this shameful chapter in Japanese & American history.

This is the authoritative history of this subject !, 13 Jul 1998
Author Sheldon Harris has done acredible job in compiling the history of Japan's Biological Warfare Research in World War II. Using a wealth of primary sources, he has pieced together a comprehensive history of the horrors Japanese Army Doctors and Scientific Researchers inflicted upon thousands of people. Using many declassified reports and journals, he has masterfully pieced together the wide-reaching impact Japan's Biological Warfare Research had on Chinese, Russians, Manchurians, and possibly western POWs such as the American, British and Dutch. This is a must-have book for any scholar of World War Two.

An excellent book!, 12 Apr 2005
I have always had a very strong interest in biological defence-not only the science, but also the history and politics of biological weaponry. My interest in the Soviet Programme started to grow when I read another relevant book in 2003, and this new book by Dr Kouzminov, a former Soviet intelligence officer, is undoubtedly a very informative book. It is indeed frightening to know that our highly protected biological defence laboratories have already been penetrated by those 'illegals'. It would be a lot more 'attractive' if the actual events in this book were more detailed. In fact, I am a bit surprised that nobody else has written any review! Personally, I strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the field of espionage and CB weapons.

Useful but poor quality, 23 Aug 2007
I bought this to help prepare for taking the British flying aptitude tests. It was good for practise and as they say practise makes perfect but the numerous mistakes let it down especially considering it was not the first edition. But actually being able to pick out all the mistakes is a boost in confidence in its self so carnt be too mad at what is just plain lasiness for the editor/author not to correct those blatent mistakes. Another thing that lets it down is repetition of questions. Fair enough the various tests to enter differnent branches of the American Armed Forces are similar and therefore certain types of question applicable to each of the tests but it would not be too great a task to alter the questions slightly and hence provide further practise for the would be pilot. Overall very poor quality book but invaluable practise nonetheless.

If you control food, you control people (H. Kissinger), 09 Nov 2008
After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.


Title beats content for originality, 21 Jan 2008
This is not a 'how to' book. It's a quick guide to weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the technology and the people who might use them without approval of a government. The information density is high and Frank Barnaby, witness to a nuclear explosion in the Australian desert in 1953, surely knows what he is talking about.

However decently written, the bottom line is this book does not tell the eager reader of newspapers much new. The book's title is brilliant but does not adequately describe what is in it. It will mainly serve those in need of a quick overview.

Not a handbook, 26 Jun 2007
If you have lost your mind and really want to build a nuclear bomb, you got to search else were. This book only provides you with some narrow information of the mechanical details, and a small fraction of the science and theories. It does however give you some interesting stats, and some drawings of the construction of the bombs them self. And as this book appeared shortly after 9/11 it has got a large part about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

Fascinating and terrifying, all at the same time., 01 Aug 2008
As soon as 9/11 happened this was one of the books I bought to separate the fact from fiction as paranoia grew across the globe. Ultimately what this book showed was that it would be almost impossible for a terrorist organisation to be able to use biological weapons effectively and indeed since 9/11 there has never been a major biological attack.

However what this book is about is the evolution of the biological weapons arms race between the Soviet Union and the West during the Cold War. The darkest point of the book is where it points out that of course germ warfare is not a weapon of mass destruction because all the infrastructure remains intact. It's just there are no people left alive making it a more "logical" option than nuclear war where the people and the buildings are destroyed. An utterly chilling piece of logic that led to both groups to not only play around with the most dangerous microorganism in the world, but in some cases actually manipulate them to make the more lethal!

Saying all this Ken Alibek tells it all with a remarkable good nature (especially when you consider he was one of the men behind all this and eventually defected to the West). It is well written, full of remarkable and shocking points and ultimately keeps you riveted to a fascinating story.


CHILLING!!, 18 Nov 2002
I picked up this book in Sydney just on the off chance. i read the back and it looked pretty interesting and it was a true story so i decided to buy it. once you start this book you cant put it down. every page you turn you jaw drops that little bit further. its an amazing book and it makes you think about what could of happened if the soviets had decided to use their biological weapons. its one of the best books i have read and i would recomend it to everyone, as it is an insite and a highly interesting book.brilliant!

Down to Earth with a Bump, 03 Oct 2002
I bought this book just becuase I had nothing else to read whilst at the airport, but once I had started it, I was glad I had. It is amazing the detail, and the knowledge brought into the book. Things you would not have thought of happening, brought to your knowledge.
Its scarey to think that this actually happened, and possibly is continuing to happen. If you need some bringing back to reality, this is the book to do it.
If you have any interest in Russia or the Cold War this is a good book to read. If you are just interested in where we are with Bioweapons and the possible outcomes, this will give you a feeling for it. If you are just a reader who think they would like a change, this is a change that is quite scarey.
All in all a good read, and not my normal choice of book, but I couldn't put it down.

Frightening!, 28 Feb 2001
At times this is a little hard to read. This is not the fault of the author's but a necessity in dealing with the complex subject matter.

Perseverence is worthwhile however as the contents of this book portray a terrifing weapons programme and illustrate a complacent attitude that was displayed by the Western powers toward it.

an excellent over-view of world war 1., 25 Nov 2003
the book is very well presented and contains many photographs, plans and illustrations. it has been written by leading authorities on the subject in a form which makes it easy to read and understand. a must for anyone having an interest in the origins and progress of the first global conflict. high quality paper has been used (unusually for a paper back) and, at the price, i rate this a real bargain.

an important book on a neglected topic, 24 Aug 1998
The Japanese experiments on the Chinese during World War II have not gained the notoriety in this country accorded to the similar Nazi experiemnts, and this book helps correct that unfortunate deficit. It's all here, including a thorough history of the shameful American cover-up that immunized the Japanese doctors & military leaders responsible for this atrocity from prosecution. The book gets a bit dry at times, but remains an essential, and long-overdue, look at this shameful chapter in Japanese & American history.

This is the authoritative history of this subject !, 13 Jul 1998
Author Sheldon Harris has done acredible job in compiling the history of Japan's Biological Warfare Research in World War II. Using a wealth of primary sources, he has pieced together a comprehensive history of the horrors Japanese Army Doctors and Scientific Researchers inflicted upon thousands of people. Using many declassified reports and journals, he has masterfully pieced together the wide-reaching impact Japan's Biological Warfare Research had on Chinese, Russians, Manchurians, and possibly western POWs such as the American, British and Dutch. This is a must-have book for any scholar of World War Two.

An excellent book!, 12 Apr 2005
I have always had a very strong interest in biological defence-not only the science, but also the history and politics of biological weaponry. My interest in the Soviet Programme started to grow when I read another relevant book in 2003, and this new book by Dr Kouzminov, a former Soviet intelligence officer, is undoubtedly a very informative book. It is indeed frightening to know that our highly protected biological defence laboratories have already been penetrated by those 'illegals'. It would be a lot more 'attractive' if the actual events in this book were more detailed. In fact, I am a bit surprised that nobody else has written any review! Personally, I strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the field of espionage and CB weapons.

Useful but poor quality, 23 Aug 2007
I bought this to help prepare for taking the British flying aptitude tests. It was good for practise and as they say practise makes perfect but the numerous mistakes let it down especially considering it was not the first edition. But actually being able to pick out all the mistakes is a boost in confidence in its self so carnt be too mad at what is just plain lasiness for the editor/author not to correct those blatent mistakes. Another thing that lets it down is repetition of questions. Fair enough the various tests to enter differnent branches of the American Armed Forces are similar and therefore certain types of question applicable to each of the tests but it would not be too great a task to alter the questions slightly and hence provide further practise for the would be pilot. Overall very poor quality book but invaluable practise nonetheless.

Convincing account of US war crimes against Korea, 05 Aug 2001
This fascinating and deeply researched book examines whether the USA used biological weapons when it attacked Korea. It shows that the US Government, in collaboration with the British and Canadian Governments, spent $500,000,000 between 1951 and 1953 developing such weapons, based on those used by the Japanese Army in its attack on China.

In February 1952, the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for "a strong offensive biological warfare capability without delay" and for developing "all effective means of waging war without regard for precedents as to their use." The biological weapons were incorporated into the Strategic Air Command's strategic plans for general war. The US state has never ratified the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning biological weapons.

The US state fought its war against Korea with no regard for legal constraints. It threatened to use nuclear weapons. It used chemical weapons - 70,000 gallons of napalm a day in 1951, and phosphorus bombs - despite having ratified the Protocol against chemical weapons. The USAF bombed civilians mercilessly: as General Curtis LeMay boasted, "We burned down just about every city in North and South Korea both ... We killed over a million Koreans and drove several million more from their homes."

The authors examine the evidence of germ-bearing insects, feathers and other carriers found after USAF bombing raids and look at the consequent outbreaks of unusual illnesses. Many captured US pilots confessed to dropping bombs containing these materials. They later retracted their confessions, claiming that their captors had 'brainwashed' them. A US Army study found no evidence of this. The pilots retracted under threat of death: the US Attorney General said that American POWs who collaborated with the enemy might face charges of treason.

The authors write, "we are led to the conclusion that the United States took the final step and secretly experimented with biological weapons in the Korean War." Read the book and decide for yourself.

Unacceptable scholarship by any standard., 28 Jun 1999
I reviewed this book in the New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1999. The review shows that the authors present, as if it were genuine and unproblematical, evidence long ago shown to be fabricated. The last paragraph of the review states:Carl Sagan used to say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The evidence Endicott and Hagerman present for their extraordinarily dubious claim is notable only for its weakness. The Chinese and North Koreans themselves had the means, motive and opportunity to fabricate evidence, and were known to rewrite history for propaganda purposes. Any plausible defense of the claim that the Americans were guilty of biological warfare in the