EnergyUnlimited wrote:Biological agents are ineffective and taking long time to work.
If highly contagious diseases are used, then they will almost certainly run out of control and affect enemy together with your own peoples.
I agree with EU on this point.
Biological weapons, if sufficiently lethal are simply too hard to control and too likely to affect the population of the side that lets such a thing loose in the environmment also. Its a MAD problem of its own.
If TPTB could have developed a highly targeted infectious organism they could control and unleashed it on the world without it endangering themselves, I am pretty sure they would have done this already. They have certainly been working on this for years, since before WWI actually. Like the investment into Fusion Power, at least half the investment into Genetic Research comes from the Defense Dept and the Military Industrial Complex. since the day that Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite, the goal of having the best weapon has always been worth a LOT of money, it of course keeps you in control MAKING that money. Actually it of course goes back a whole lot further than that, to the development of the first Spears and Atlatls, but we can stick to the modern weapons here for the purposes of this thread.
Biological weapons are a Loose Cannon, nobody can control them. Avian Flu is a good example, you just don't know when this one will mutate to a form easily transmissible through humans. Eventually, it just about has to happen, given how many birds are currently infected and how many people depend on eating birds as a source of protein and the population density of China, where the problem remains at its greatest for NOW.
Whether it is Avian Flu or a directed Biological Weapon (which Avian Flu MIGHT be), once it is let loose in Mother Nature's world, even the Rockefellers could not stop it from mutating. Like the old TV Commercial said, "You don't MESS with Mother Nature". She holds ALL the cards, and she can shut us all down in the blink of an eye when we mess with her too much. Just look at the Polar Ice Cap. TPTB messed with that one, and now good chance that one takes us all down anyhow, but I do not think at this point they could release an infectious agent sufficiently virulent to be worthwhile as a military instrument and still protect themselves. Its one thing that still remains past our ability to control, fortunately.
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