Publication
Jul 2002
This publication contains a number of papers examining the 1971 smallpox outbreak in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). It features at its core a translation of a declassified Soviet-era document, written by Kazakh SSR officials, describing and analyzing the smallpox epidemic in the town of Aralsk. It further contains a paper outlining the historical background of the Soviet biological weapons (BW) program and the level of awareness it achieved in the US. The final article provides an epidemiological analysis of the outbreak by a BW expert and physician.
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| Author | Bakyt B. Atshabar, Jonathan B. Tucker, Raymond A. Zilinkas, Alan P. Zelicoff, E. Sarynov, B. Kulmakhanov, Z. Makatov, I. Borisov |
| Series | CNS Occasional Papers |
| Issue | 9 |
| Publisher | James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) |
| Copyright | © 2002 Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) |