In 1979, an explosion at a Soviet biological weapons facility in Sverdlovsk released aerosolized anthrax, killing at least a hundred people. The Kremlin immediately blamed contaminated meat and…
Annie Jacobsen — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Annie Jacobsen has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Modern Wisdom, The Shawn Ryan Show. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Annie said
“A biological weapon, any pathogen, is a living munition. It's alive. And it remains with a mind of its own. And it's self-reproducing. And so it's just go once it gets unleashed.”
— Annie Jacobsen (02:04)
Episode appearances
2 
The Soviet Union’s biological weapons program in the 1970s and 1980s was not dismantled after the Biological Weapons Convention, but absorbed. Scientists created a super-plague weapon, airborne…
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