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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The History of Smallpox
In the 60s, Russians proposed a world scale program of public health to eradicate smallpox. It was run out of Geneva by an American doctor who I followed around for several months once in Geneva and elsewhere. In the 90s, when the Soviet Union collapsed, DA learned there was a secret lab still operating that had been trying to eliminate smallpox vaccination from the world. And he did for the last part of his life to try to get past this. So that scenario is not outside the bounds of possibility. But generally speaking, biological warfare isn't very effective because your own people can be infected as well. Much like poison gas, which used to blow back over the lines of the people
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