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Three: Andy Weber on pandemics and nuclear wars

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Do You Think the Threat Is Different to Day?

The soviet programme applied sort of rudimentary molecularb logy in ways to make viruses and bacteria more effective as weapons. I'm concerned that russia still continues elements of its biological weapons program on a much smaller scale. But you don't need a lot of biological weapons to kill potentially millions of people. It's kind of surprising tat you think they had tens of thousands of working on this programme, and yet it never leaked isto incredibly effective secrecy.

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