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by Pixie_Dust 929 days ago
“Biohazard”, Ken Alibek

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116867/

“The 1979 Anthrax leak in Sverdlovsk”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdl...

From memory: Ken devised a method of fermenting bugs in flask* and then freeze drying them to be attached to the nose cone of an ICBM. To be sprinkled over the continental United States.

[edit] * A giant vat. Certain bugs would only grow on a surface.