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		<title>88 million American adults own guns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the 2026 National Firearms Survey, 32.7% of U.S. adults (95% CI 32.2% – 33.2%) personally own firearms, suggesting that approximately 88 million American adults own guns: Following the practice of major survey programs such as the General Social Survey, Gallup, and Pew’s American Trends Panel, household income is not employed as a weighting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The mysterious virus appeared to liquefy body organs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first recorded outbreak of the virus we now call the Marburg virus occurred in 1967, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), at the Behring pharmaceutical works in Marburg, an old university town seventy miles north of Frankfurt: An animal keeper died two weeks after he contracted a mysterious illness from green monkeys sent to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Where other governments saw a medical victory, the Kremlin perceived a military opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the diseases that have tormented mankind, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), smallpox has left the oldest and the deepest scars: Recorded as early as 1122 B.C. in China, it altered the course of history, ravaging eighteenth-century Europe and decimating the native populations of North America. Smallpox comes from the pox family of viruses, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The word virus comes from the Latin term for poison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word virus, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), comes from the Latin term for poison: Viruses are invisible under most microscopes and hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand. Their existence was unsuspected until Dmitry Ivanovsky, a Russian microbiologist, discovered them in the late nineteenth century while investigating an outbreak of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>There were one or two accidents every week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By 1986, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), they had over 900 people at the bioweapons plant, and more were coming every month: There were one or two accidents every week. Once Gennady Lepyoshkin, the chief of our biosafety directorate, reported that a technician had been infected with anthrax in a lab that was supposed to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A clogged air filter was not an unusual occurrence, but it had to be replaced immediately</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak of 1979: The story went public a few months later—in a way. In November 1979, a Russian magazine published by anti-Soviet émigrés in what was then West Germany reported that an explosion in a military facility in the southwest section of Sverdlovsk had released a cloud [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It was milky brown, the highest possible concentration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) a time he was called into the lab to handle a problem: I stripped my clothes off and stuffed them into one of the lockers lining the walls. Then I walked into a second room, where a young nurse sat behind a desk. I had a nodding acquaintance with her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If you could lift the roof, it would resemble a Russian matryoshka doll</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) the spotless gray three-story structure at Omutninsk that had been designated as the pilot plant for tularemia: Building 107 was structured according to the box-within-a-box principle, to keep the deadliest organisms out of the surrounding countryside. If you could lift the roof, it would resemble a Russian matryoshka doll. […] [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>She had been designed and built specifically to be Grand Fleet Headquarters, and nothing else</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned before, a modern warship’s Combat Information Center — that wonderfully telegenic room full of maps, computer consoles, and sweeping polar displays of radar and sonar echos — was, according to Rear Admiral Cal Laning, taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E.E. Smith, Ph.D. Smith [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet biology was paralyzed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the Cold War, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), when the USSR appeared to be leading the world in space and nuclear weapons technology, Soviet biology was paralyzed: We had gone from being one of the world’s powerhouses of immunological and epidemiological research to a backwater of demoralized and discredited scientists. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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