Explosion at research center in Russia

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16. The guy who supposedly ran Russia's entire bio warfare

program defected to the U.S. in the 1990s and wrote a book published in 2000 about it. Apparently Alibek doesn't do open social media, too bad. Here's a link to the NCBI/NIH'S review, which gives it four stars out of four.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116867/

Alibek refers to Biopreparat as “our Manhattan project.” “The Soviet Government decided that the best agents were those for which there was no known cure. This shaped the entire course of our program and thrust us into a never-ending race against the medical profession.” ...

Biohazard is a first class book about biological warfare, whether read as a thriller or as a revelation. Alibek provides mountains of facts as well as insights into the Byzantine intrigues and power struggles within the Soviet system. As I finished the book, I recalled Rudyard Kipling’s 1898 poem, The Truce of the Bear:

“When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer,
That is the time of peril—the Time of the Truce of the Bear.”