Number: RL31368
Title: Preventing Proliferation of Biological Weapons: U.S. Assistance to the Former Soviet States
Authors: Michelle Stem Cook and Amy F. Woolf, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: This report describes the research, development, and production capabilities in the government-sponsored biological weapons complex in the former Soviet Union. It provides an overview of U.S. efforts to prevent proliferation from this complex to other states and sub-state actors.
Pages: 22
Date: Updated April 10, 2002