Germ Weapons: In Soviet Past or in the New Russia's Future? [Link to Iraq !] By JUDITH MILLER and WILLIAM J. BROAD ust as the Soviet Union was ending its confrontation with the West in the late 1980s, the military officers who ran Moscow's secretive germ warfare program ordered up new, much deadlier arms. At a remote laboratory complex in Kazakhstan, Russian scientists began animal testing of the Marburg virus, a highly contagious germ that kills by attacking every organ and tissue in the body. This secret testing, described recently by several veterans of the Soviet program, went undetected...