State Secrets: An Insider's Report on the Russian Chemical Weapons Program

In the 1980s, an unprecedented deception took place while the President of the U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev, was negotiating the Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty aimed to eliminate chemical weapons worldwide and prohibit new ones. The Moscow Institute, which was developing chemical weapons at the time, was secretly working on newer and significantly more toxic weapons, colloquially known as Novichok and new binary weapons. Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, a scientist there, was responsible for developing methods to detect extremely small traces in the environment around the institute. He determined that this dangerous hypocrisy was unacceptable and became the first whistleblower to expose the Russian chemical weapons program to the world. His book, State Secrets, provides a shockingly detailed insight into the inner workings of the Russian chemical weapons program and explains how the Russians established a new program in Syria. Mirzayanov's book delivers a shocking, immediate investigation of Russia's military and political complex and its extraordinary efforts to conceal dangerous weapons from the world. State Secrets should serve as a chilling warning to the entire world.