Cold war leaves a deadly anthrax legacy By Judith Miller NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE June 2, 1999 VOZROZHDENIYA ISLAND, Uzbekistan -- In the spring of 1988, germ scientists 850 miles east of Moscow were ordered to undertake their most critical mission. Working in great haste and total secrecy, the scientists in the city of Sverdlovsk transferred hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria -- enough to ...