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Military labs do work with bioweapons, and (unsurprisingly) they sometimes have trouble containing them just like regular labs. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/
by blincoln 2y ago
Military labs do work with bioweapons, and (unsurprisingly) they sometimes have trouble containing them just like regular labs.
E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Aral_smallpox_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Aral_smallpox_incident
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/archives/what-went-wrong/article_50446ac6-f3a3-11e2-8875-0019bb30f31a.html https://www.fredericknewspost.com/archives/what-went-wrong/a...
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-dies-in-ebola-accident-at-former-weapons-lab.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-d...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/23/army-anthrax-shipments-pentagon-army/30154545/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/23/army-a...
- andrewflnr 2y agoFor defensive purposes, FWIW. I suppose they might create some mirror molecules to test defenses, but I believe gus_massa's point stands that you don't need to generate full, functioning cells for that purpose.