Uzbekistan: Poison Island
Uzbekistan: Poison Island
Author(s): Marina KozlovaSubject(s): Politics
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Karakum desert; Aral Sea; biological weapons; Ivan Velikanov; USSR; aerosol bomblets; Anthrax; tularemia; brucellosis; plague; typhus; Gappar Asenov
Summary/Abstract: Could a Soviet-era testing ground for bio-weapons be the source of a plague outbreak?
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 03/07
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
