EditorialSecretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial while speaking of the possiblity of an attack using anthrax during his address to the United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 5, 2003. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialApartment buildings at a compound, left, that once housed a military lab in Yekaterinburg, Russia, June 11, 2021. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)