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A deadly Soviet threat lives on

Down a street from where children play, just yards away from homes and vegetable gardens, the Plague Research Institute in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital is a terrorist’s dream. Under the guise of civilian research, the institute collected and housed thousands of deadly germs during the Soviet era to be used against the United States in a war. Until recently, the facility was completely unguarded. Full Story