@inbook{10.7591/j.ctt1287dk2.8, ISBN = {9780801452888}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1287dk2.8}, abstract = {When the first American delegation visited the anthrax production plant in Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan, in 1995, they were struck by the enormity of the place. Spanning a territory of two square kilometers, the plant was composed of more than fifty buildings. The main production building alone was almost two football-field lengths and contained ten 20,000-liter fermentors, each four stories high, capable of producing 300 tons of anthrax a year. The facility housed a unique indoor 300-cubic-meter explosive test chamber with a removable dome. A line of bunkers hidden under a hill, sporting thick metal doors and two-meter-thick walls, were used to}, bookauthor = {Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley}, booktitle = {Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development}, edition = {1}, pages = {91--121}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, title = {The Soviet Bioweapons Program: Failed Integration}, year = {2014} }