1367: Annie Jacobsen | The Genes and Germs of Biological Warfare

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. The revelation is the Soviet program was not dismantled when the wall went down, but rather absorbed. They signed the treaty they crossed their fingers, their hands behind their back and say, Oh yeah, we're definitely on board. No biological weapons. And what do they do? They begin a colossal illegal. Biological weapons program involving genetic modifications. And among the weapons was the super plague weapon that was designed to kill Tens of millions or hundreds of millions of their enemies in the West.

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Andy Jacobson's new book is not about a bomb that explodes once. It's about a living weapon that copies itself, travels through our airports, exploits our compassion, and attacks not only our bodies, but our trust in medicine, the government, and in one another. How much of this nightmare is documented, how much of it is plausible extrapolation, And what can be done before the clock runs out. Here we go with Annie Jacobson. This book is actually quite scary. Nuclear war was scary'cause everybody dies, but this is scarier because everybody dies, but also way more gruesomely and it takes longer. You know, nuclear war is in that book I take the readers from nuclear launch to nuclear winter. In seventy two minutes.

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