Year: 2022

RUSSIAN STOCKPILES. "Possessed the world’s largest chemical weapons stockpile: 40,000 metric tons of chemical agent, including VX, sarin, soman, mustard, lewisite, mustard-lewisite mixtures, and phosgene. Russia has declared this to the OPCW and has commenced destruction ... It plans to complete destruction between 2015-2016." http://lnkd.in/dd2C6wz View in LinkedIn

SYRIAN BIOWARFARE ALLEGATIONS. "Syria's biological warfare programs are latent, compartmentalized and spread across its remaining bio-pharmaceutical infrastructure. The programs are designed to be highly agile to allow swift production if required." Worryingly, the report suggests that ... "the widespread looting of bio-pharmaceutical laboratories throughout the country." http://lnkd.in/dwGASnf View in LinkedIn

AGENT ORANGE. "During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands of Vietnam and neighboring countries ... Vietnam estimates that as a result of the decade-long chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other illnesses." http://lnkd.in/dKZdVjF View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL CHERNOBYL. "The largest biological weapons accident known– the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city (known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today) ..." All records were expunged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodefense View in LinkedIn

RUSSIAN BIOWARFARE R&D BASED ON JAPANESE WORK. "The closed city of Sverdlovsk had been a ... military-industrial complex since World War II. A major nuclear accident ... in 1957, resulting in (massive) spread of radioactive dust. The biological weapons facility ... was built after World War II, using documentation captured in Manchuria from the Japanese germ warfare program." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Anthrax_leak View in LinkedIn

SUPER-ANTHRAX IN RUSSIAN LEAK. "The strain of anthrax produced in Military Compound 19 near Sverdlovsk was the most powerful in the Soviet arsenal ("Anthrax 836"). It had been isolated as a result of another anthrax leak accident that happened in 1953 in the city of Kirov. A leak from a bacteriological facility contaminated the city sewer system ... This strain was planned to be used to arm warheads for the SS-18 ICBM, which would target American cities, among other targets." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Anthrax_leak View in LinkedIn

"THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT, also known as the Skull Valley sheep kill, was a 1968 sheep kill that has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Six thousand sheep were killed on ranches near the base." http://lnkd.in/dft3Xjj View in LinkedIn

DOUGWAY PROVING GROUND, "much of the activity at Dugway Proving Ground is a closely guarded secret. Activities at Dugway included aerial nerve agent testing ... Dugway was still producing small quantities of anthrax as late as 1998, 30 years after the United States renounced biological weapons. There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident." http://lnkd.in/dft3Xjj View in LinkedIn

DOUGWAY TESTS. "In total, almost 500,000 lb (230,000 kg) of nerve agent were dispersed during open-air tests ... including 328 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 dirty bomb tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of meltdown of aeronautic nuclear reactors." http://lnkd.in/dft3Xjj View in LinkedIn

PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF OPEN AIR TESTS. "Dugway Proving Ground is a military testing facility located approximately 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. From 1951 through 1969, hundreds, perhaps thousands of open-air tests using bacteria and viruses that cause disease in human, animals, and plants were conducted at Dugway... It is unknown how many people in the surrounding vicinity were also exposed to potentially harmful agents used in open-air tests at Dugway." (US GAO Report 1994). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground View in LinkedIn