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Lynn Johnson
Freelance / National Geographic Magazine
"Weapons of Mass Destruction"  

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"Cold War Leftovers" A decade after the demise of the Soviet Union and its immense bioweapons industry, vials of plague germs are still kept in an old pea can at a biological institute in Kazakhstan. Until recently, the facility had little security.
 
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