Russia Rejects Germ Charges
Russian officials on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that Russia may be continuing to develop germ weapons.
“All this is absolute lies,” and all work on biological weapons was stopped in 1975, the Defense Ministry’s Directorate for Bacteriological, Radiation and Chemical Defense told the newspaper Izvestia.
The statement came in response to a Washington Post report saying the United States and Britain are worried the Russian government may not have fulfilled a 6-month-old promise to shut down the old Soviet Union’s extensive program for making illicit germ weapons.
The State Department confirmed Monday that a diplomatic effort is under way to bring Russia into compliance with an international ban on germ warfare programs.
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