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This is the third post in a sequence of blog posts on state biological weapons programs. Others will be linked here as they come out: 1.0 Introduction 2.1 The empty sky: A history of state biological weapons programs 2.2 The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage? 3.1 Filters: Hard and soft skills 3.2 Filters: A taboo 3.3 Filters: The shadow of nuclear weapons 4.0 Conclusion: Open questions and the future of state BW  I’ve heard a lot about “nuclear close calls.” Stanislav Petrov was, at one point, one human and one uncomfortable decision away from initiating an all-out nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR. Then that happened several dozen more times. As described in Part 1, there were quite a few large state biological weapons programs after WWII. Was a similar situation unfolding there, behind the scenes like the nuclear near-misses? Were any biological apocalypses-that-weren’t quietly hidden in the pages of history? What were the actual usage plans for biological weapo

This is the third post in a sequence of blog posts on state biological weapons programs. Others will be linked here as they come out: 1.0 Introduction 2.1 The empty sky: A history of state biological weapons programs 2.2 The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage? 3.1 Filters: Hard and soft skills 3.2 Filters: A taboo 3.3 Filters: The shadow of nuclear weapons 4.0 Conclusion: Open questions and the future of state BW I’ve heard a lot about “nuclear close calls.” Stanislav Petrov was, at one point, one human and one uncomfortable decision away from initiating an all-out nuclear exchange be

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