Biological War: A Scenario

By Annie Jacobsen. Based on dozens of interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility — considers the possibility of a lab accident or a bio-attack that could lead to a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. Looks deeply at a situation that is in some ways the opposite of a nuclear bomb: there is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that when used for evil, can only result in evil.
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