From ENN DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Friday, April 4, 1997
Vol. 3 - 094
Russian Scientists Allegedly
Discover New Deadly Chem/Bio Agents
By ENN News Team
LONDON (ENN) - The highly-regarded Jane's Land Based Air Defense
1997-98 defense publication says that Russia has developed a new
strain of the anthrax toxin that is said to be totally resistant
to antibiotics. The bio-agent could cause a castrophe if it ever
fell into the wrong hands.
Jane's said in the forward of its publication that the toxin,
along with three new nerve agents, have been developed by Russian
military research laboratories. Jane's cited Western intelligence
sources and Russian defectors as the source of its information.
In its report Jane's said: "It only needs this, or the new
chemical nerve agents to be independently discovered by an
ostracized nation's scientists and then developed for missile
delivery for an armageddon situation to occur, whereby the only
reliable retribution may well be overwhelming nuclear
response."
Jane's said that the three nerve agents could be made without any
of the precursor chemicals that are banned under the 1983
Chemical Weapons Convention. Two of the new nerve agents were
said to be eight times as deadly as the VX nerve agent which Iraq
has acknowledged to be stockpiling. The third nerve agent was
said to be only as deadly as VX.
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