Weapons of Mass Destruction

Lynn Johnson

Freelance / National Geographic Magazine

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.

Lynn Johnson, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," in POYi Archive, Item #33500, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/33500 (accessed May 12, 2025).