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Lynn Johnson
Freelance / National Geographic Magazine

"Weapons of Mass Destruction"  

"Frighteningly Easy" "Frighteningly Easy."That's how simple it was for a Pentagon team to build this makeshift anthrax lab inside the Nevada Test Site, according to one participant. Buying equipment from hardware stores and lab-supply outfits, the team took just over a year to produce simulated anthrax. The project was designed to identify detectable patterns of activity of a terrorist lab and to see if law enforcement officials would notice. They didn't.
 
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