Annie Jacobsen is a journalist, investigative reporter and an author.
For decades, nuclear war has been humanity’s greatest existential fear. But the next global catastrophe may not arrive with a mushroom cloud—it could begin inside a laboratory. What would a biological attack actually look like, how quickly would it spread, and could humanity survive it?

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Nuclear vs Biological War: Which Is Worse?
(01:08) Why No One Is Talking About Bioweapons
(04:23) Is Genetic Engineering a Good Thing?
(07:14) What COVID Really Taught Us
(13:25) Who Created the First Biological Weapon?
(21:25) What Makes the Perfect Biological Weapon?
(26:44) The Soviet Bioweapons Ambition
(27:50) How the Soviet Program Was Exposed
(34:38) How Many Bioweapons Are Man-Made?
(37:30) The Biggest Mistakes in Bioweapons History
(45:04) What Happens in the First 24 Hours of a Leak?
(56:02) Bacteria vs Virus: Which Is More Dangerous?
(57:19) Does Dose Responsiveness Determine Survival?
(59:21) Are Incubation Time and Lethality Correlated?
(01:02:19) How the Soviets Created a Euphoric Plague
(01:08:39) Six Days: From Outbreak to Anarchy
(01:23:37) How Close COVID Came to Social Breakdown
(01:36:24) Where to Find Annie
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