Biological War Quotes

“Disguising guesswork as facts has far reaching psychological consequences. Like the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"- false alarms erode trust.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“Disguising guesswork as facts has far-reaching psychological consequences. Like the fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” false alarms erode trust.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“Engineers can dismantle [nuclear] weapons of mass destruction, but can we ever dismantle the ideas that caused us to build such monstrous things?”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“The twenty-first century expansion of the high- and maximum-containment biosafety laboratory network, and gain-of-function experiments, were an American-led, post-9/11 affair. The starting gun on a vast new biotechnological arms race. A buildup fueled by fear, terrorism, paranoia, and greed. A BioDefense bonanza that has now become a cash cow for a new generation of defense contractors and biotechnologists, with everyone wanting a pieve of the pie.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“Near Neptune’s Reef and Pool”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“Russia’s ultimate goal”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario

“At the close of World War II, after the hard-fought peace was won, weapons of mass destruction became the weapons of choice for the United States and the Soviet Union. Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons were produced on a massive scale. An arms race was unleashed, with weapons of mass destruction originally seen as the ultimate tool of a future total war. The ugly truth from now declassified early war plans is that the lines between killing combatants and killing civilians would need to be blurred in order to destroy an enemy's capacity to fight a war involving weapons of mass destruction. Civilians, even if it meant hundreds of millions of them, would have to die in order to fight and win.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario