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Russia secretly tests most powerful chemical weapon
MOSCOW. Sept 17 : The Russian military ha* »ccreOy, tested the world* most powerful binary chemical weapon, developed by the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reported Wednesday reports AP.
The weekly Moacow New* •aid the test took place during the first three month* of this year at a proving grounds on Ustyurt Plateau. near the city of Nukus In Uzbekistan
It said the site was c hown to avoid detection by US spy satellites. which frequently targeted another test site at Shlkhany in central Russia
The newspaper aald Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov might not have known about the lest
The article was signed by Vil Mirzayanov and Lev Fyodorov, identified as doctor* of chemical sciences. ~
The newapaper said the teat was conducted despite President Boris Yeltsin'* an nouncement January 29 that "Russia adhere* to the agree ment on non-production and destruction of chemical weapon*, signed with the United State* In 1990."
The 1990 agreement ha* not yet been ratified by either
the US Congress or the Russian Parliament. It calls only for a halt In production and a reduction in stockpiles of chemical weapon*. It doe* not restrict testing, said Elisa Harris, a senior research analyst at the Brokkings Institution tn Washington, DC, by telephone.
The Russian test, if ft did in fact take place, wa* not a violation." she said
Binary chemical weapon* have two component* that are not lethal until they are mixed, making them safer to store. Moscow News said the Russian weapon wa* developed from a
"new poisonous agent" developed at Moscow's Scientific Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology.
The effects of the poisonous agent were permanent, the newspaper reported, adding without elaboration that people who were exposed to it have remained Invalids.
The weapon Is "the most powerful in the world', surpassing those developed in the United States, the article said.
Production of the weapon began in the Volga River city of Volfpgrad Later, in the spring of 1991. then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev awarded
the weapon's designers the Lenin Prize, the country's highest scientific honour, Moscow News reported
It identified two of the recipients as the Moscow institute director. V Petrunin. and Gen Anatoly Kuntsevich, deputy chief of Russia's chemical forces. The newspaper said Kuntsevich recently was appointed to head a presidential Committee on Problems of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions.
Turning to the Moscow institute itself, the paper reported that ft lacks proper filters and Is releasing small but
dangerous concentrations of poisonous agents into Moscow's atmosphere.
According to Moscow New*, eight to 10 kilograms (17.6 to 22 pounds) of deadly chemicals are usually kept at the institute.
The newspaper suggested that the appointment of Kuntsevich. a weapons designer, means "a restoration of the (old) system." The article speculated — without citing any evidence — that Russia might use dlrs 25 million US aid to develop new chemical arms.