Smallpox Soviet weaponization

Some 200 tons of smallpox virus have been produced by the USSR as a weapon and inherited by Russia. Their fate is unclear. However, details of the development of smallpox as a weapon by the Soviets became available. A report was elicited from General Prof. Peter Burgasov, former Chief Sanitary Physician of the Soviet Army and a senior researcher within the BWP. Admitting that development of BW by the Soviets did take place, in the form of live field tests, he described a smallpox incident that happened in the 1970s, and was then hashed up On Vozrazhdenie Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. Suddenly I was informed that there were mysterious cases of mortalities in Aralsk. A research ship of the Aral fleet came 15 km away from the island (it was forbidden to come... 

At present, the only known repositories of smallpox virus are in the United States and the former Soviet Union at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Russian State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology near Novosibirsk, in Siberia. Other nations such as North Korea and Iraq may also have viable stocks of Variola major stored at undeclared sites, possibly for use as biological weapons. 

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