Abstract

On 22 March 2012, Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin promised to develop new weapons based on advanced technologies, including genetics. Having just completed a history of the Soviet biological warfare (BW) program with Milton Leitenberg, I found Putin's promise exceedingly threatening. It could signal a new Russian military effort to develop third-generation biological weapons agents, building on the first- and second-generation BW programs of the former Soviet Union.

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