There are often discussions of "limited" nuclear warfare. Was there ever any time during the coldwar when "limited" biological warfare was seriosuly considered? What would the effects have been?
Unless in the future, someone do the VERY touchy genetic manipulations for a germ or virus targeting special markers of some... ethnicity or groups...
and I am not sure it is doable scientificaly.
And dystopic.... 'Race warfare' indeed.
It was smallpoxLimited and virus don't work so well together. I don't even know why they call them weapons, since a weapon is something you can control. Anyway, back to the question; something like this was used against the Indians, when they were given blankets that were infected with some disease to which the soldiers were resistant.
There are often discussions of "limited" nuclear warfare. Was there ever any time during the coldwar when "limited" biological warfare was seriosuly considered? What would the effects have been?
I suppose that biological weapons targeting food supplies could count, there was a fair bit of development of those style of weapons.