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Biological warfare is genuinely fucking terrifying once you start thinking about it, and I am incredibly glad that nukes took the spot of 'WMD of choice' and the funding that came with that. Imagining artificial/lab-grown viruses made with the same funding, expertise, and dedication that the nuclear powers put into their bombs should make you piss yourself, at least a little bit.

Operation Vegetarian is a perfect example of why, Epidemiologists/Infectious Disease specialists who looked at the plans after they were declassified were convinced that it would have lead to the vast majority of mainland Europe (along with a decent chunk of West Asia and North Africa at least) being biologically 'hot' for the foreseeable future and completely uninhabitable, and projected a death toll that would be somewhere above 100 million making it possibly (hopefully) the single deadliest act in human history.