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Uzbekistan: U.S. Team Arrives on Vozrozhdeniya U.S. military ecological experts have arrived on Vozrozhdeniya peninsula in the Aral Sea to begin cleaning up abandoned biological weapons agents there, the Czech Republic-based Transitions reported last week (see GSN, May 2). The U.S. team arrived on the peninsula to begin analyzing the threat posed by agents left behind by the former Soviet Union, according to Transitions. A joint U.S.-Uzbek cleanup program is scheduled to begin today. Vozrozhdeniya was once home to the largest Soviet biological weapons testing facility. In 1988, the Soviet Union buried hundreds of containers filled with anthrax on the peninsula — then an island — and used the area to test biological weapons until 1991, Transitions reported. The team is only decontaminating the Uzbek-controlled area, which covers 75 percent of the peninsula. Kazakhstan, which controls the remainder, has said it will seek international aid to conduct similar activities (Transitions, May 7).
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