Talk:Biohazard (book)
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Alibek's book is an authoritative account of the former Soviet Union biological weapons program. For the most part, the book's assertions recently have been confirmed by U.S. and other Western microbiology and bioweapons authorities, while site-visiting many of the laboratory and weapons production sites and cataloguing the pathogens. The vast Soviet biological weapons infrastructure dwarfed anything that was done in the West.
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- "The vast Soviet Union biological weapons infrastructure dwarfed anything that was done in the West."
I started to place a "citation needed" tag on this, but decided to re-phrase instead. Any given Western government may or may not be obeying the Biological Weapons Convention. The articles on the Convention and on bioweapons in general are both silent about unproven speculation of Convention violations, which (I believe) is exactly appropriate for Wikipedia. However, explicitly stating that a nation or group of nations is not in violation seems difficult, at best, to verify and cite. Aylad ['ɑɪlæd] 02:53, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
