The Anthrax Letters: A Bioterrorism Expert Investigates the Attack That Shocked AmericaAt 2:00am on October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens entered a hospital emergency room. Feverish, nauseated, and barely conscious, no one knew what was making him sick. Three days later he was dead. Stevens was the first fatal victim of bioterrorism in America. Bioterrorism expert Leonard Cole has written the definitive account of the Anthrax attacks. Cole is the only person outside law enforcement to have interviewed every one of the surviving inhalation-anthrax victims, along with the relatives, friends, and associates of those who died, as well as the public health officials, scientists, researchers, hospital workers, and treating physicians. Fast paced and riveting, this minute-by-minute chronicle of the anthrax attacks recounts more than a history of recent current events, it uncovers the untold and perhaps even more important story of how scientists, doctors, and researchers perform life-saving work under intense pressure and public scrutiny. Updated with new information about Ivins and a series of upcoming Congressional hearings into the FBI’s conduct in this case, The Anthrax Letters amply demonstrates how vulnerable America was in 2001 and whether we are better prepared now for a bioterror attack. |
Contents
American Media | 22 |
The Nation at Risk | 47 |
The U S Mail | 72 |
The Outliers | 95 |
A Scientists Race to Protection | 138 |
Terror by Hoax | 160 |
Who Did It? | 185 |
Loose Ends | 212 |
Epilogue | 239 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Acknowledgments | 271 |
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