What Happened Inside Russia’s Plague Lab?

By The Free Press | Created at 2026-10-08 09:23:01 | Updated at 2026-10-08 10:26:41 1 hour ago

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What Happened Inside Russia’s Plague Lab?

After a mysterious plague death in Siberia, former arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea explains what Russia could be building, how it might use it, and why China is following suit.

A young researcher in Siberia has died of the very disease her institute studies, and Russia won’t say how it happened. Marshall Billingslea, former Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control, says Moscow has scrubbed news reports, had officials walk back talk of an outbreak, and kept the World Health Organization in the dark. He joins School of War to…

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