The Threat Greater Than Nuclear War: Biological War and the Bioweapons That Could End Civilization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798190872521)

In 1979, a microscopic release of anthrax from a secret Soviet biological weapons facility in Sverdlovsk killed dozens of people. For years, the Soviet government blamed contaminated meat. The truth was far more disturbing. The accident exposed a covert biological weapons program that had continued for years despite an international treaty banning such weapons.

That program was not an anomaly. It was one chapter in a much longer history stretching from medieval biological warfare and Japan's Unit 731 to the Cold War, the biotechnology revolution, and the rise of artificial intelligence. Biological warfare has never disappeared. It has evolved.

In The Threat Greater Than Nuclear War, Derek Hallman examines the history, science, and strategic logic of biological weapons, explaining why many experts now regard them as one of the greatest long-term threats to civilization. Drawing on historical evidence, declassified intelligence, scientific literature, and biosecurity research, the book explores how advances in synthetic biology, gene editing, and artificial intelligence are lowering the barriers to biological warfare while exposing the weaknesses in the world's current security architecture.

Whether you are interested in military history, geopolitics, biotechnology, national security, or the future of global security, this book offers a carefully researched examination of a threat that is often overshadowed by nuclear weapons but may prove even more consequential.

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