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State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program Paperback – Illustrated, 30 Dec. 2008

English edition by Vil S Mirzayanov (Autor)
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State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s, while U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating for the Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty was supposed to destroy chemical weapons of the world and ban new ones. The Moscow institute that developed chemical weapons at that same time was secretly developing newer and greatly more toxic ones known anecdotally as "Novichok" and new binaries. Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, a scientist there, was responsible for developing methods of detecting extremely minute traces in the environment surrounding the institute. He decided this dangerous hypocrisy was not tolerable, and he became the first whistleblower to reveal the Russian chemical weapons program to the world. His book, State Secrets, takes a startling detailed look at the inside workings of the Russian chemical weapons program, and it tells how the Russians set up a new program in Syria. Mirzayanov's book provides a shocking, up-close examination of Russia's military and political complex and its extraordinary efforts to hide dangerous weapons from the world. State Secrets should serve as a chilling cautionary tale for the world over.
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    624 pages
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    30 Dec. 2008
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 3.51 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1432725661
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1432725662
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Outskirts Press; Illustrated edition (30 Dec. 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1432725661
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1432725662
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.51 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Vil S. Mirzayanov

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Born in 1935 in a rural village in rural Bashkortstan, Russia, Vil Mirzayanov was the son of the village school teacher. His father, a staunch Communist, broke with a 200 year old family tradition in which the oldest sons entered the Muslim clergy. The Mirzayanov family is Tatar, a Turkic ethnic minority descended from the Bulgar Huns.

Dr. Mirzayanov distinguished himself as a chemist, and over a 26 year period, he worked at the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology in Moscow, which was the main developer of chemical weapons in Russia. As Chief of the Counterintelligence Department, he was responsible for developing methods of detecting extremely minute in the environment surrounding the institute. At some time during the 1980's, Dr. Mirzayanov came to the conclusion that chemical weapons were unnecessary for his country's defense, though dangerous for people near the manufacturing and storage sites. During perestroika, the CW program was going ahead at full speed, while President Gorbachev and others denied its existence. Dr. Mirzayanov tried to change things through the usual channels at his institute, but was rebuffed.

In 1991, he published a short article in "Kuranty", hinting at the CW program, but no one noticed, except for his employer and the KGB. He was fired from his job. In the fall of 1992 Dr. Mirzayanov gave an interview with "The Baltimore Sun" and co-authored an article in Moscow News. In October, he was arrested and sent to Lefortovo Prison charged with revealing state secrets. He never gave any formulae or protocols for synthesis of the super deadly new class of chemical agents he referred to, called "Novichok" or newcomer at that time. Though he was released 11 days later, he remained under house arrest until his trial in January 1994.

The closed-door show trial attracted a great deal of international attention and the support of many scientists and human rights advocates all over the world. Dr. Mirzayanov was sent to "Matrosskaya Tishina", a maximum security prison for a month, for refusing to participate in the "kangaroo court". His case was eventually dropped, due to lack of evidence. After that, Dr. Mirzayanov became the first person in 70 years to sue the Russian government, including the Procurator General's office, the KGB and his institute. He won a 30 million ruble award, which was later overturned by an appeals court.

In 1995, Dr. Mirzayanov immigrated to the United States, and wrote this book about his life and experiences within the Soviet/Russian chemical military complex. It has been under edit and revision for a while. Finally, the story of Novichok has come forth.

He has received the 1993 Cavallo Foundation Special Award for Moral Courage, the 1994 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award of the New York Academy of Sciences and the 1995 American Association for the Advancement of Science (A.A.A.S.) Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award.

Dr. Mirzayanov testified 1995 before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which was holding a hearing about terrorism and the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

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  • Gary D.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in Canada on 13 April 2018
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    Good book with lots of name sometimes hard to follow.

    One sad story that Dr. Mirzayanv tells is that of a researcher at a development laboratory who was accidentally exposed to a small amount of nerve agent when a seal failed on a tube. The man didn't die as an immediate consequence of his exposure. But his subsequent difficulties make it clear that any exposure to such an agent, even at a very low level, can have devastating consequences for the rest of one's life, due to long-term side impairments in mental processing capabilities and emotions. In the story that he tells, the man eventually died, after many travails, as a result of long-term side effects of his initial exposure.

    Miraculously Skrypal and his daughter survived. Does it not prove that no Novichok gas was used?!
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  • Frank H. Sanders
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to understand Russian development and use of nerve gas weapons, this is the best unclassified book there is.
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 April 2018
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    This book provides an extraordinary look inside the Russian chemical-weapons development system, written by a scientist who was deeply involved in that work for decades until he exposed it to the world in 1993. As he explains in this book, he put this information into the public domain because he was deeply disturbed by the devastating power of nerve agents, the extreme environmental problems and risks associated with their production and storage, their uselessness as military weapons, the waste inherent in their development, the official lying of the Soviet and later RF governments about their non-existence, and the illegality of the development programs in his country, run by sometimes-rogue generals inside the Russian military-industrial complex. In this book he details how he was jailed, prosecuted, released, jailed again, and finally forced to emigrate to the United States after publicly exposing clandestine Russian chemical weapons programs for development of a new class of nerve agents.

    Vil Mirzayanov, now 83, describes in this memoir the enormous Soviet, and later Russian Federation (RF), complex of technical staff, laboratories, production facilities, and test ranges that continued to develop and test new types of nerve gases even as his country was negotiating its participation in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) with the international community. Dr. Mirzayanov explains at length the Russian goal of evading CWC restrictions by creating a new class of nerve gases (called Novichok, Newcomers) for the express purpose of continuing to hold on to some chemical weapons after stocks of the older types that were known to the international community (e.g., VX and VX analogs, sarin, tabun, etc.) and their precursors were to be destroyed.

    Ironically, part of the motivation that he describes for developing the Novichok class of weapons was a disinformation campaign by US Intelligence, based on bogus, "secret" nerve weapon data that were carefully fed to the Russians via a double-agent US Army spy. The phony data were supposed to mislead their scientists and engineers and cause them to waste time and money on hopeless development work. But the fake American data actually caused them to start thinking about the new agents that they eventually created, Mirzayanov says.

    If you want to understand the nerve gases that the RF has developed, and now holds illegally in its possession, you need to read this book. One of these agents was used in March 2018 in an assassination attempt at Salisbury in the UK. (Mirzayanov's account indicates that Novichok agents are only held by, and available for use by, the RF leadership.) To this day, this book is the only open-literature source of detailed information on the chemical composition, structure, and effects of the Novichok nerve poisons such as were used at Salisbury.

    One sad story that Dr. Mirzayanv tells is that of a researcher at a development laboratory who was accidentally exposed to a small amount of nerve agent when a seal failed on a tube. The man didn't die as an immediate consequence of his exposure. But his subsequent difficulties make it clear that any exposure to such an agent, even at a very low level, can have devastating consequences for the rest of one's life, due to long-term side impairments in mental processing capabilities and emotions. In the story that he tells, the man eventually died, after many travails, as a result of long-term side effects of his initial exposure.

    Dr. Mirzayanov provides interesting side descriptions and commentary on Russian proliferation of nerve gas precursors (the chemicals from which nerve gases are made) and finished products to places such as Iraq and Syria. He includes some pithy observations on what he sees as the recklessness and irresponsibility of the US Army's disposal of old chemical weapons in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's army was defeated. (Spoiler: Mirzayanov calls the Army's expedient of blowing up Iraqi chemical weapon depots with explosives "barbaric," a sure-fire way, he says, to contaminate the environment and expose soldiers and civilians to robust nerve gas molecules that tend to be dispersed as airborne fallout rather than incinerated by explosions.)

    In the biggest picture, you should read this book if you want to gain Dr. Mirzayanov's unique perspective on the extent to which Soviet, and later the RF, leadership were and are politically and operationally dedicated to fighting against democracies and the very notion of democratic processes and institutions through any and all available means. This book deserves a wide readership.
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  • Kris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2018
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    Very interesting read, definite page-turner, recommended!
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  • Kirill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book about Soviet chemical weapons program
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 July 2018
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    Cool book. You get an insider's look into the Soviet chemical weapons complex, including some peculiar stories about accidents and lax security at the chemical weapons research center in the middle of Moscow. The middle part of the book gets a bit boring, but to my surprise the last third of the book, which describes the arrest and trial of Vil is really interesting. All in all, a good read.
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  • Prunesquallor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2018
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    As described, quick delivery.
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