In December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, but what happened to the Soviet biological weapons program was more complicated. Soviet research into biological warfare began in the 1920s, was assembled ...

Leitenberg and Zilinskas' massive volume explores every dimension of the Soviet biological weapons program: its technical aspects, what U.S. and British intelligence knew about it, the role of Warsaw ...

Soviet scientists spent decades preparing for the second attack, concocting new kinds of biological weapons more lethal than any ever invented.

When the Berlin Wall came down November 9, 1989, the decades-long division of Europe was over. But there was another event, just two weeks before, that also broke down barriers and changed the course ...

Despite becoming a party to the convention, the Soviet Union expanded its secret biological weapons program, which ultimately employed tens of thousands of people throughout the country -- and ...

“The Soviet Biological Weapons Program,” a 2012 book by Milton Leitenberg and Raymond Zilinskas that provides the most comprehensive public survey of Soviet bioweapons facilities, identifies ...

“The Soviet Biological Weapons Program,” a 2012 book by Milton Leitenberg and Raymond Zilinskas that provides the most comprehensive public survey of Soviet bioweapons facilities, identifies ...

All three labs were “associated with the Russian biological weapons program,” the Commerce Department notice states. The labs—the 48th Central Scientific Research Institute in Kirov, the 48th Central ...

Inside the Russian biological weapons conspiracy theory 03:20. United Nations — The U.N.'s 15-nation Security Council voted down on Wednesday a proposal by Russia to create a commission to ...

Moreover, the United States had been collaborating with Russia in the same way-- providing similar assistance to Russia to refocus the activities of former Soviet biological weapons laboratories ...