What Could Be Worse than This?

Actual biological warfare could be worse than this. I wrote up a short appraisal of the prospects at the National Interest…

For nearly as long as people have understood that proximity affects the spread of disease, they have appreciated the implications for warfare. This has included forcing victims of plague to travel into enemy lands, as well as throwing dead bodies and other contaminants into enemy strongholds (a trick the Mongols used with some regularity). Evidence that such attacks have been attempted is plentiful, evidence of success rather less so.