Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen 358.38 JAC . Beaverton Library .
pxvii Prologue: . The Demon Germ
p001 PART I . How we Got Here
p008 Soviet program chief Kanatzhan Alibekov / Ken Alibek Biohazard memoir PSU UG447.8.a45 2000
p008 Chimera Project began late 1980s
p009 1971 Stanford gene splicing, recombinant DNA
p013 Paul Berg 1971
p015 PNAS Berg (+10 others) Letter 1974 Moratorium
p016 Ken Abilek (Kanatzhan Alibkov) Kazakh, immigrated to the US 1992
- Biohazard 1999 book at PSU (purchased eBay $7.66 2026 Oct 3)
p017 Obolensk south of Moscow
- p018 designed to look like an insane asylum to a satellite
p021 Sergei Popov creates DNA that expresses a second disease after the first
p023 James Lawler CIA Counterproliferation Division
- p024 low-flying cruise missiles to disperse aerosolized pathogens
p027 abduct extremities with painful buboes (spread arms and legs) to relieve pressure
p032 William C. Patrick Biological Warfare Laboratories
p033 2001 anthrax attacks 22 contracted anthrax, 5 died
not in book, Bruce Edwards Ivins suspected by FBI, suicide, insufficient evidence
p034 in 2007, 15 BSL-4 labs and 1356 BSL-3 labs in the US
p035 Gain-of-function
euphemism for biological weapons engineering says Andy Weber
p038 P3CO Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight
p039 2025 survey 110 BSL-3 labs in 34 countries and 3515 BSL-3 labs in 149 countries
p041 PART II . The Clock Starts Ticking
p045 DOD spots searing light at VECTOR near Kolsovo and Novosibirsk
p046 CBRN event
p052 mutated and more infectious virus became Marburg Varient U
p053 MASINT Measurement and signature intelligence "sniffs things"
- p064 fiction: infected scientist in confessional, followed by Russian student who returns to UCLA
- p064 fiction: infected scientist Generation 0, priest and student generation 1
n65 Sima Asadi et. a. "Aerosol Emission and Superemission During Human Speech Increase with Voice Loudness", Scientific Reports, February 20, 2019
p075 Robert Kadlec quoted, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense Policy and Programs in 2026
- p088 If pneumonic plague enters lungs without antibiotics in 24 hours, you die
p107 PART III . Once It's Here, It's Already Too Late
p127 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak killed >68? >100? local people
- p136 early COVID timeline, 30 days from "mystery pnuemonia" reports to 7818 confirmed Covid cases around world
p137 Australian epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre "if you're slow, it's already too late"
p143 hemoptysis airway bleeding, not necessarily coughing.
- p144 Special Pathogen suite, "self-contained biosafety fortress" only 13 in the US
p169 PART IV . The Last Day of American Democracy
p175 BioSense integrated nationwide health surveillance system to catch disease outbreaks and bioterrorism events
- no data from homeless shelters with 800K people
- p177 July 2025 Baltimore "mass casualty", 27 overdosed on fentanyl/sedative
- p179 LA Fire hazmat team not prepared for a catastrophic biological event
- p194 tail end of non-related antibiotic vs pneumonic plague - outcome untested and uncertain
- p197 2014/09/20 Liberian arrived at DFW with Ebola, died in Dallas Hospital, infected two nurses
- p230 Returning Apollo astronauts quarantined for 21 days in case of "Moon Germs"
p245 PART V . Martial Law
p267 NORTHCOM combat command for homeland defense
p270 High Point Special Facility Mount Weather
p272 Continuity of government sites
- p279 ENDEX, END (of wargame) EXercise
- p284 Large Language Models can find classified information in unrelated documents
p289 Brett Giroir four star admiral
in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps