More Devastating Than a Nuclear Bomb

Despite their signature on the Biological Weaponsenemies, such as Taiwan. We could even retaliate
Convention of 1975, it has been reported thatagainst Japan for the 1940 bombing of China with
China has the most advanced modern germplague-infected fleas.By itself, the scenario above
warfare arsenal in the world at Xian, Shaanxisounds far-fetched, until you recall a very similar
province.As proof, information obtained using thescenario that featured SARS instead of bird flu.
Freedom of Information Act shows that in 1997It's been more than two years since the Chinese
Clinton administration officials approvedgovernment lied about their knowledge of SARS
supercomputer exports to a known Chinese germand then finally confessed that SARS somehow
warfare lab without an end use inspection. The"escaped" from a Chinese military lab, but we still
computer was delivered to Jiatong University,don't have a vaccine for SARS. Why? Because it
Xian. The university is a known center forwas genetically engineered by Chinese scientists,
bioweapons research.Furthermore, in April 2005,making it very difficult to produce a vaccine.The
Deputy Director of China's Academy of MilitaryU.S. has been playing rather fast and loose with
Medical Sciences, Cao Wuchun said "China isthe BWC,too.In 2001, New York Times journalists,
developing technology to resist possible bioterrorJudith Miller and Stephen Engelberg, uncovered the
attacks." The science lab used to developDefense Intelligence Agency's effort at the
resistance to bioattack can be the same scienceBattelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, to
lab to develop bioweapons.In 2001, the U.S. Stategenetically engineer a strain of vaccine-resistant
Department issued a report naming Sudan, Northanthrax, just to name one secret project. There
Korea, Iraq, and Iran as countries known to beare many others ongoing, so it is logical to
developing dangerous biological weapons, butassume that the U.S. is experimenting with H5N1
strangely, the Bush administration refused to putas a bioweapon, also.In the first year of his
China on the list, saying "there may be someadministration, President Bush sent John Bolton to
'friendly countries' with biological weaponsambush the BWC, and put in its place a biological
programs who would not be named."Given theweapons treaty that would place the U.S. above
reality of a Chinese bioweapon program, it isquestion by any country.With two superpowers
conceivable that a cell of young communistconsidering H5N1 as a secret bioweapon, and no
microbiologists, working within a weapons thinkvaccine in sight, the earth's population may
tank, have proposed the following scenario tosuddenly find itself intentionally being thinned down.
government officials:Bird flu, or H5N1, is a readilyAfter all, the planet's 6,446,131,400 billion people
available deadly pathogen. It is rapidly mutatingare pushing the limits of sustainability. The risk of
into human-to-human transmission capability.getting caught in this thinning is very high. If H5N1
Because bird flu is at the epidemic stage inis unleashed as a weapon, or it reaches pandemic
southeast Asia, it would be completelyproportions on its own, it will be far more
transparent to the world if our labs were todevasting than a nuclear attack.
release a concentrated form of this virus on our