Soviet anthrax lying unguarded on test island: “One of the world’s largest dumps of the biological weapon agent anthrax has been left unguarded.

The dump is on Vozrozhdeniye (Renaissance) Island in the middle of the Aral Sea, on what was once a Soviet open-air biological weapons test site. It is about 600 miles from Afghanistan.

Now divided between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the island was abandoned nearly 10 years ago, but enough anthrax spores remain to kill the world’s population several times. It is buried in metal drums a few feet below the surface.” Telegraph UK