Germs: America's Secret War Against Biological
Weapons
by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William J. Broad
Published (of all dates!) 9-11-01!
Partial review on Amazon.com:
"Miller, Engelberg and Broad have written an outstanding and very readable history of the US and foreign germ warfare programs and of national and international efforts to ban biological weapons.
Many people spoke more frankly than I would have thought possible, so that the book is very
revealing.
Biological weapons are more frightening than poison gas, and more deadly than 767s loaded with fuel.
Bio-terrorism surely poses a much greater risk to the United States than any possible ballistic missile attack from a "rogue" state.
It is likely that an attack on the US with a communicable disease or a natural outbreak of one of the emerging influenza viruses that appear from time to time and have a mortality rate of 30%, comparable to smallpox, could devastate the country and place the Constitution and democracy at risk. The authors make this clear.
"Germs" is not perfect; the authors get the story on the failure of the proposed agreement to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention wrong, because they reported based on only one point of view, and that a tiny minority one....."