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Secrets of Biological Warfare: Despite some glaring flaws, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War is an informative introduction to the 20th-century history of biological warfare. (Book Review).
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001, 382 pages, hardback, $27.00.
For the critical reader capable of discounting the terrible policy recommendations at the end of the book, Germs serves as a helpful and well-written primer on the 20th-century history of biological weapons. The authors begin by illustrating how the study of biological weapons had remained a hidden history until isolated incidents of germ warfare thrust the topic into the spotlight. Even today few Americans probably remember when a cult founded by an Indian guru, the Rajneeshees, dumped a ...
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