a lot of it are in very small disks about two-and-a-quarter inches across. in fact, there are 100,000 of those disks in buckets. there is just one problem. they are not numbered. they are not inventoried. you can put a dozen in your pocket and walked out with them, and they were struggling when i was there that day to begin the process of keeping track of those disks. in the year 2000 the door swung open for me at the institute of applied microbiology south the moscow. this laboratory for was the scene of some of the most diabolical and bizarre research in genetic engineering carried out in the secret soviet biological weapons program which i ll talk about briefly today. .. how did it get this wave? this began a long research effort to roll back the clock to the 1980 s, it matt i have covered in washington as a white house correspondent and understand how the fissile material, the pathogens, the chemicals got so widely spread and in the process of that research i got very luc