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kleinbl00  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Errol Morris: ‘Demon in the Freezer’

We literally had no idea how hard-core the Soviets were about germ warfare until it was all over.

The fucked up part I still don't understand is that a secret weapon has zero deterrent characteristics - if you don't know that they've got a gajillion gallons of weaponized anthrax, how can it keep you from gettin' aggro? It seems as if the Soviets brewed a bunch of bugs "just in case" and got nightmarishly good at it without anybody really knowing.