Reviews for Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

The average rating for Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-02 00:00:00 Troy Seaman Beginning in the 1950s in Fort Dietrich, Maryland the U.S. army designed germ weapons. Testing was done in the Utah desert. The most effective way of mobilizing microbes for war is airborne delivery of biological microbes. The small particles could penetrate deep into the lungs. The scientists increased the potency of anthrax; a gallon of anthrax held up to eight billion lethal doses, enough to kill every person on the planet. Japan killed thousands of Chinese with anthrax, typhoid and plague. Viruses include the causative agents of Influenza, Smallpox and Ebola. The one treatment is immunization. A successful biological attack requires advanced laboratory equipment, virulent microbes and knowledge. Expertise is available by means of thousands of scientists skilled in biological warfare from the collapsed Soviet Union, the apartheid movement of South Africa and from Iraq. Germ weapons are called the poor man's atom bomb. Unfortunately the military-industrial complex that supports weapons systems has little interest in vaccines and public health. "We remain woefully unprepared for a calamity that would be unlike any country has ever experienced." That statement was made by scientists in 2001. The calamity occurred in 2020 with Covid-19. I'm not saying that Covid-19 was man made but it is definitely an awakening to the deadliness of viruses and the need to prepare.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-25 00:00:00 Richard D. Salinas So, about a week ago I had the desire to settle down on the couch with a good martini and read a book on bio-warfare (I know I am weird that way). I went to the library and thought that this one looked pretty good. I started it the day before yesterday and was enjoying it. Then I got to the part right after the first Gulf War, and things started to get strange. The author kept mentioning how the coalition forces did not destroy all of Sadam's bio-weapon factories, and he hid most of them from the UN inspectors. I thought that this was really odd since if he had done that we would have found them after Gulf War II (electric boogaloo), and if we had found them Bush would have rubbed our collective noses in it, and I don't remember that. This puzzled me, so I took a closer look at the author, the name seemed familiar, I knew that I had heard somewhere. A quick internet search and I remembered where I had heard of her, she was the New York Times writer who had written about Sadam's WMDs and later had to retract the story when it had all been proven false. She has just expanded this lie into a book. Oh well, time to go to the library and pick up a book about Bio-warfare that is not fiction.