Re: does the US have a secret biological weapons program?
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They may have anti biowarfare programmes, but weaponization programmes? Unlikely. Biowarfare just isn't useful in practise, that's why no-one uses it.
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Because of the risk of self-destruction? Or because weaponizing the agents is prohibitively difficult?
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Mainly because they're not too useful in a tactical sense. OK so you drop some anthrax munitions on the enemy's army before a battle. Where does that get you? They're going to die a long lingering death days and weeks from now, but in the meantime their combat effectiveness isn't decreased. They're just really pissed off and totally fearless.
Anthrax munitions could be useful in a ground denial capacity; but you have to set up a huge exclusion zone and the area is lethal for a century or so. Not great.
The only real role for them is in attacks against civilian targets to destroy the enemy's industrial base. But if you have nukes...
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