ch. 1. The origins and history of bioweapons -- 1. The early history of bioweapons / British Medical Association -- 2. Japan's Unit 731 Program / Greg Goebel -- 3. British, U.S., and Canadian bioweapons collaborations / Wendy Barnaby -- 4. Cold War bioweapons programs and their legacy / Alexandra M. Lord -- ch. 2. Types of bioweapons -- 1. An overview of weapons-ready pathogens / Colleen M. Davenport -- 2. Anthrax / Sallie Baliunas -- 3. Smallpox / Donald A. Henderson ... [et al.] -- 4. Ricin / Doug Hanson -- 5. Tularemia / Gretchen Vogel -- 6. Plague / Institute for Biosecurity -- ch. 3. Encounters with bioweapons -- 1. Japan's experiments on prisoners / Yoshio Shinozuka -- 2. Working in the Soviet bioweapons program / Ken Alibek -- 3. Anthrax attack on the capitol / Bill Frist -- 4. An anthrax victim struggles to recover / Angela Rucker -- ch. 4. Defending against bioweapons attacks -- 1. Emergency vaccine programs / Mark B. McClellan, Anthony S. Fauci -- 2. Bioweapons detectors / Margaret E. Kosal -- 3. A military view of defense against bioweapons / Robert P. Kadlec -- 4. The threat of bioweapons justifies restrictions on liberties / Thomas May -- 5. The bioweapons threat has been exaggerated / Philip Alcabes -- ch. 5. Emerging threats and defenses -- 1. State-aided terrorists pose a serious bioweapons threat / Elisa D. Harris -- 2. Engineering deadly germs / Jon Cohen -- 3. Amateur "biohackers" could pose a serious threat / Chappell Brown -- 4. The United States launches Project Bioshield / Frank Gottron, as interviewed by Ira Flatow -- 5. Body temperature could become an early warning system / Robert Armstrong, Patricia Coomber, Stephen Prior -- 6. America should lead a global biosecurity effort / Lauren T. Hickok, Reynolds M. Salerno.