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.