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Anthrax Lab’s History of ‘F-ing Around’ With Explosives

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The facility that accidentally shipped live samples of the deadly pathogen was mixing powerful bomb-making ingredients with kitchen tools, investigators found.

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It came as a shock when the U.S. military came clean about one of the worst biodefense screw-ups on American soil in decades—the release of live, lethal anthrax to

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