The Soviet Union covertly operated the world's largest, longest, and most sophisticated biological weapons program, thereby violating its obligations as...

built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons. Over the course of its 27-year history, the program weaponized and stockpiled seven bio-agents...

A biological weapons program of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was reported to have been active in the 1980s, and is suspected by some governments...

inherited offensive biological weapons program. The agreement's objective was to uncover details about the Soviet's biological weapons program and to verify...

three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...

split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring...

humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents") are living organisms...

world that the Soviet Union had embarked upon an offensive programme aimed at the development and large-scale production of biological weapons. Sverdlovsk...

nuclear program, Kazakhstan was also a prominent site of Soviet programs of biological (only Biopreparat outside of Russia) and chemical weapons. The former...

(2012). The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. Harvard University Press. Leitenberg, M. (2012). North Korean Genocide, Nuclear Weapons, and Food...

accounting of the former Soviet biological weapons program. During a CIA debriefing, Alibek described the Soviet efforts to weaponize a particularly virulent...

biological weapons for combat use. The Soviet Union covertly operated the world's largest, longest, and most sophisticated biological weapons program...

and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. (By 1960, the Soviet biological weapons program also included numerous other research and operational facilities...

Milton; Zilinskas, Raymond A.; Kuhn, Jens H. (2012). The Soviet biological weapons program: a history. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04770-9...

Shoham, D.; Wolfson, Z. (October–December 2004). "The Russian Biological Weapons Program: Vanished or Disappeared?". Critical Reviews in Microbiology....

producing such weapons has increased. The Soviet Union continued research and production of offensive biological weapons in a program called Biopreparat...

Milton; Zilinskas, Raymond A.; Kuhn, Jens H. (2012). The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: a History (Kindle ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard...

facility. At least in Soviet times the facility was a nexus for biological warfare research (see Soviet biological weapons program), though the nature of...

German scientists in Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and later his research was used in the Soviet program of biological weapons. Until the end of the...

signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Soviet Union continued development and production of offensive biological weapons. Under a new,...

 'bio-medication') was a Soviet agency created in April 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated offensive biological warfare program known. It was...

Antonov Rimmington, Anthony (2018-11-15). Stalin's Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-092885-8...

Experimental and Production Base, was one of the premier biological warfare facilities operated by the Soviet Union. It was the only Biopreparat facility to be...

"Nuclear Weapons States" under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons...

built in the 1970s after the Biological Weapons Convention prompted the formation of the Biopreparat directorate at the Soviet Union Ministry of Health....

six to seven nuclear weapons per year. North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons. In 2003, North Korea...

explanation of the program was "to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction in states of the former Soviet Union and beyond". The CTR program funds have...

nuclear scientists in Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and later his research was used in the Soviet program of biological weapons. Until the end of the...

always expecting the KGB (or the later FSB) to deal with him. Soviet biological weapons program List of Eastern Bloc defectors Preston, Richard (9 March 1998)...

500 and housed scientists and employees of the Soviet Union's top-secret Aralsk-7 biological weapons research and test site. Brian Hayes, a biochemical...