Perhaps an update is in order, but to make it more releveant, use a modern title like "Walter White's Guide to Improvised Chemistry" (hmmm... would that be an IP violation of some kind?)
In reality all the information needed to make a wide variety of explosives, chemical and biological weapons, illegal drugs and so on is available in any university library and quite a few public libraries as well as the Internet - a Google Books search for "History of Explosives" is illustrative. The training necessary to successfully carry out the required protocols is available in any university chemistry program. Requisite raw materials are more carefully tracked and monitored than in the past, however (with good reason), but even so, such materials can themselves be synthesized by the skilled industrial chemist from non-trackable sources.
The real risk is not that some isolated nutcase will go on a rampage, however - such people are more likely to blow themselves up or poison themselves than anything else - it's that nation-state governments and the private contractors they hire will decide to do something psychotic like produce drone warfare systems for the wide-area distribution of biological and chemical weapons in some place like eastern Ukraine (indeed, there may be some evidence that this is already going on or being planned).
The real sociopaths all go to work for governments, as history as shown. The largest bioweapon and chemical warfare programs in history were run by the Japanese, British, American and Soviet governments, and they employed hundreds of trained scientists who justified their lunatic behavior with vague appeals to patriotism, duty, and national defense.
The Soviet bioweapons program was arguably the largest and longest-running of them all (see for example Sverdlovsk anthrax), so I'm not sure how drawing attention to it counts as 'Kremlin propaganda':
The use of drones to deliver biological and chemical weapons is also a long-standing issue of concern in all warzones, not just in Ukraine. (Not every comment is part of some organized PR war between NATO & Russia)
In my defence, your original comment made no mention of anything Soviet.
I think it’s not unreasonable to assume that when people say “Ukraine”, they’re referring to the free and independent sovereign nation.
Furthermore, you said that this is happening now or is planned for the future. The USSR doesn’t exist now, so this sounds very much like the common kremlin justification for their illegal invasion — that the Americans are using Ukraine to conduct secret nefarious experiments in bio labs.
The most charitable interpretation of your comment is perhaps that russia may use biological or chemical weapons in the current war against the Ukrainians, but then one would have to ignore that you specified Eastern Ukraine, because nothing is limiting russian terror to the Donbas.
In reality all the information needed to make a wide variety of explosives, chemical and biological weapons, illegal drugs and so on is available in any university library and quite a few public libraries as well as the Internet - a Google Books search for "History of Explosives" is illustrative. The training necessary to successfully carry out the required protocols is available in any university chemistry program. Requisite raw materials are more carefully tracked and monitored than in the past, however (with good reason), but even so, such materials can themselves be synthesized by the skilled industrial chemist from non-trackable sources.
The real risk is not that some isolated nutcase will go on a rampage, however - such people are more likely to blow themselves up or poison themselves than anything else - it's that nation-state governments and the private contractors they hire will decide to do something psychotic like produce drone warfare systems for the wide-area distribution of biological and chemical weapons in some place like eastern Ukraine (indeed, there may be some evidence that this is already going on or being planned).
The real sociopaths all go to work for governments, as history as shown. The largest bioweapon and chemical warfare programs in history were run by the Japanese, British, American and Soviet governments, and they employed hundreds of trained scientists who justified their lunatic behavior with vague appeals to patriotism, duty, and national defense.