‘Biohazard’ and the scale of Soviet bioweapons

A reader recommends Ken Alibek’s ‘Biohazard,’ highlighting its stories about lab leaks and national paranoia. The reader says the Soviet biological weapons program employed about 60,000 people and that a single facility was built with the capacity to produce about 300 metric tons of weapons-grade anthrax in 10 months. They describe the subject as one of the scariest things they’ve read about.