Soviet Union chemical troops

In accordance with the data available at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, in 1945, our troops captured 35 [thousand - LF.J metric tonnes of chemical weapons, including chemical aircraft bombs, which were brought and dumped by the trophy groups into the sea between the coasts of the Soviet Union and Sweden,... 

Even after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian federation of states had in place what was probably the largest chemical and biological warfare infi-astructure in the world. Not only were there massive stockpiles of chemical armaments, but tens of thousands of troops, thousands of scientists, and hundreds of research and production facilities spread across at least six vast and now autonomous states. For the world community, the problem was that Russia s 75-year history of CBW research, development, and production had created a legacy not just of munitions, but of a highly skilled and experienced corps of scientists and soldiers who no longer worked under strict central... 

Since the end of World War I—and especially throughout the Cold War—the Soviet Union maintained a highly capable and formidable CW capability. At its height, the Soviet army had 80,000 CW troops, a number that could have easily doubled with reserves in wartime. The modern Soviet chemical arsenal contained approximately 40,000 tons of CW. Nearly all Russian artillery systems had some chemical-weapons capability, as did mines and aerial spray tanks. But the beginnings of Soviet chemical weaponry were less than auspicious. 

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