{"product_id":"9783030738426","title":"The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme: Ploughshares to Swords","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme: Ploughshares to Swords\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRimmington, Anthony\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed \u003ci\u003eEkologiya\u003c\/i\u003e – which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was the largest offensive agricultural biowarfare project the world has ever seen and Soviet anti-crop and anti-livestock weapons had the capability to inflict enormous damage on Western agriculture. Beginning in the early 1970s, there was a new focus within the Soviet agricultural biowarfare programme on molecular biology and the development of genetically modified agents. A key characteristic of the \u003ci\u003eEkologiya\u003c\/i\u003e project was the creation of mobilization production facilities. These ostensibly civil manufacturing plants incorporated capacity for production of biowarfare agents in wartime emergency. During the 1990s-2000s, the counter-proliferation efforts\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eundertaken by the US and UK played a major role in preventing the transfer of \u003ci\u003eEkologiya\u003c\/i\u003e scientists, technologies and pathogens to Iran and other countries of potential proliferation concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnthony Rimmington\u003c\/b\u003e is a former Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University’s Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, UK. He has published widely on the civil life sciences sector in the post-Soviet states and on the Soviet Union’s offensive biological warfare programme, including \u003ci\u003eStalin’s Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-06-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030738426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-73843-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 243\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49481130279052,"sku":"9783030738426","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030738426.jpg?v=1778003197","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030738426","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}