After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Biopreparat was privatized. Today it is run by former Russian army officers. Biopreparat's assembly lines once worked at dozens of large factories, including one in Stepnogorsk, now in present day Kazakstan. During its heyday, it was the largest production facility of biological weapons in the world. At the top-secret facility, former chief Alibek engineered the germs to be super resistant to antibiotics.
People can die during a conversation, for example.
Renaissance Island was used as an open-air testing ground. At night, to avoid American satellite detection and because most biological agents are more effective then, Soviet scientists would move monkeys in cages downwind from the labs. Bomblets would explode overhead releasing deadly germs, like a fictional horror movie. The cloud would start moving towards the monkeys. Thousands of animals were killed.