Moscow's Poison War: Mounting Evidence of Battlefield Atrocities

Publication Date: February 1982

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James A. Phillips

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Soviet Union

Abstract:

The Soviet Union, incapable of growing enough grain t o feed its own population, is devoting enormous resources and attention to growing a grain fungus from which it extracts deadly mycotoxins for military use. Aside from what this says about the nature of the Soviet system, this chemical warfare effort is disturbing for what it indicates about Soviet intentions in any future conflict.