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She says that she's concerned that Russia soldiers will take control of the materials in these labs and release it into Ukraine as a false flag, and that the US
by thepasswordis 5y ago
She says that she's concerned that Russia soldiers will take control of the materials in these labs and release it into Ukraine as a false flag, and that the US is working with them to secure these places.
It seems like we're getting into some really weird definitions of weapons if that doesn't count as a "weapon".
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoBiological material, especially if it is disease related, can be easily misused. This sounds like the effort the USA had 20+ years ago in helping Ukraine in securing and eliminating their nuclear arsenal. Not because the USA was interested in more nuclear weapons, but because they didn’t want terrorist getting ahold of them.
- thepasswordis 5y agoWhat would you call a lab which studies and looks to defend against diseases which could be weaponized?
- whimsicalism 5y agoBSL-4 CDC labs have smallpox, that doesn't make them bioweapon labs.
- ashwagary 5y ago>that doesn't make them bioweapon labs. Actually it does. Any lab that works on viruses of mass destruction are bioweapon labs with a trivial amount of objective shift.
- thepasswordis 5y agoUm, yes it does? The reason those labs keep smallpox around is to study it as a bioweapon. Here's an article from 2007 about the CDC shutting down a "bioweapons lab" at Texas A&M University: https://www.wired.com/2007/07/the-centers-for/ https://www.wired.com/2007/07/the-centers-for/ Texas A&M wasn't creating bioweapons, they were studying them as part of a bioweapons defense program.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoA lab? Are there even many labs that are studying things that cannot be weaponized?