US hopes to stop chemical weapons by hiring scientists before they can create any

Remnants of the Soviet Union's bioweapons program may still be floating around Russia, be it actual chemicals or the highly trained scientists capable of making them. That's a scary thought for members of the United States' defense community, and as part of an effort to keep the region in check, they're helping to fund the construction and operation of a new laboratory in neighboring Kazakhstan to study deadly diseases. In a profile of the new facility, Motherboard reports that while the local r...