Gennadiy N. Lepehskin: No, well... how it happened was...
Interviewer: This was...
Lepeshkin: A laboratory was... was set up... initially a smallish lab was established just outside Moscow, which worked on these kinds of small projects, then documents were signed regarding the establishment... of... work in this field of antibiological defense, antibacteriological defense. And within that framework, things developed further. But they were compelled to take this measure because everyone else around them had begun working on biological weapons--all the countries, and the Soviet Union among them, it did not lag behind in this work and began doing it.