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The All-Union Science Production Association Biopreparat (Russian: Биопрепарат, [bʲɪəprʲɪpɐˈrat], lit. 'bio-medication') was a Soviet agency created in April 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated offensive biological warfare program known. It was a vast, ostensibly civilian, network employing 30–40 thousand personnel and incorporating five major military-focused research institutes, numerous design and instrument-making facilities, three pilot plants and five dual-use production plants. The network pursued major offensive research and development programs with genetically engineered microbial strains to be resistant to an array of antibiotics. In addition, bacterial agents were created with the ability to produce various peptides, yielding strains with wholly new and unexpected pathogenic properties.[1] The origins of the Biopreparat network are closely connected with the creation in the 1950s, under the leadership of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, of biological war

Biopreparat - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soviet biological warfare agency The All-Union Science Production Association Biopreparat ( Russian : Биопрепарат , [ bʲɪəprʲɪpɐˈrat ] , literal translation</span>"}]],"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"lit","href":"./Template:Lit"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"bio-medication"}},"i":0}}]}'>lit. ' bio-medication ' ) was a Soviet agency created in April 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated offensive biological warfare program known. It was a vast, ostensibly civilian, network employing 30–40,000 person

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