I Have TWO Russian Library Cards Now!

This past Wednesday, with the help of an official-looking letter from the director of my language school, I was able to gain admission to the Central State Sechenov Medical Library. During my first trip to the library, I was able to find two full card catalog drawers of bacteriophage-related scientific papers from the 1980's and 1990's. Although I didn't have time to order any articles (I had to leave to see the Bolshoi present Prokofiev's opera War and Peace), I marked a handful of them down in my notebook, including an article about Soviet biowarfare. Apparently, some Soviet scientists during the 1980's were assessing the United State's capacity to wage biological warfare and proposed to use bacteriophage to combat bacterial weapons. Very interesting . . .