The Russian Biological Weapons Program: Vanished or Disappeared?
@article{Shoham2004TheRB, title={The Russian Biological Weapons Program: Vanished or Disappeared?}, author={Dany Shoham and Ze’ev Wolfson}, journal={Critical Reviews in Microbiology}, year={2004}, volume={30}, pages={241 - 261} }
The legacy and arsenal of biological weapons Russia inherited from USSR in 1991 became a lingering unsolved issue, in terms of a prime strategic arm that ought to be eliminated, advisably, in accordance with the Biological Weapons Convention Russia is committed to, and considering further undertakings and declarations made by the Russian regime. Indeed, that inheritance was created by USSR as a powerful, highly sophisticated component of utmost importance within the Soviet military paradigm…
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