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  1. VECTOR
  2. Copyright page
  3. Dedication
  4. AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. Epigraph
  6. PROLOGUE
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. EPILOGUE
  34. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  35. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  36. GLOSSARY

With everything else there is to worry about these days between AIDS, famine, economic woes, civil war, ethnic cleansing, and global warming, it seems there is hardly room for the specter of bioterrorism. Yet few threats have the capability of killing so many so fast. For years we lived under the fear of nuclear winter annihilating the human race. Now there is a similar threat from biology.

Finally, on a more positive note, governments and local authorities, particularly in the United States, have started to consider seriously the menace of bioterrorism and have begun to act. Money has been appropriated. The Department of Defense and the FBI have formed specialized response units. Major cities like New York have tasked their emergency management organizations with the problem. There have been efforts at training on the local level and exercises to mimic real events. Still, the results to date are equivocal. It may take an actual bioterrorist strike to harden government initiative, but by then, for many, it will be too late.

Much needs to be done, and we all have to contribute. Let’s not wait for an incident like the planned one in Vector to solidify our resolve.

Robin Cook, M.D.

Naples, Florida

December 1998

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.Davis, Lorraine, et al., editors, Medical Aspects ofChemical and Biological Warfare. Washington, D.C., Office of the Surgeon General, 1997.

This is a thoroughgoing, textbook treatise.

2.Falkenrath, Newman, and Thayer, America’s Achilles’Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack. Cambridge, MA, M.I.T. Press, 1998.

This is the best general book on the subject that I found. It focuses directly on policy implications.

3.Hamm, Mark, American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime. Westport, CT, Praeger, 1993.

I didn’t know the difference between skinheads, punks, and rockers until I read this book. I found it fascinating, particularly in relating these movements to rock music.

4.Laqueur, Walter, Fascism: Past, Present, Future. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.

This is an extraordinarily readable book about a movement that most of us thought had been defeated in World War II. I found it inordinately stimulating, particularly in relation to the current economic and social turmoil in Russia.

5.Lundberg, George, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Chicago, Vol. 278, No. 5 (August 6, 1997).

This entire issue of JAMA was devoted to the issues of bioweapons, biowarfare, and bioterrorism. It is written from the point of view of the health-care provider.

6.Preston, Richard, “Annals of Warfare: The Bioweaponeers.” The New Yorker, Vol. 74, No. 3 (March 9, 1998).

This is a wonderfully written article that is bound to disturb any reader.

7.Remnick, David, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia. New York, Random House, 1997.

This is another enormously readable, enlightening, and ultimately disturbing book. It is a must for anyone interested in the current chaotic situation in Russia.

GLOSSARY

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GLOSSARY