The Anthrax Bomb

bard32

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I first heard about this on NBC Nightly News back in the '70s. The British were
actually developing an anthrax bomb. What if they did?
 

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I first heard about this on NBC Nightly News back in the '70s. The British were
actually developing an anthrax bomb. What if they did?

No if involved. They did create one.

Nothing happened beyond a small island in the Channel being contaminated with anthrax for the second half of the 20th Century.

Next?
 
No if involved. They did create one.

Nothing happened beyond a small island in the Channel being contaminated with anthrax for the second half of the 20th Century.

Next?
The island was in Scotland, I think.

He might be talking about Rhodesia anyway, which did experiment with Anthrax in the 70s and use it.
 

bard32

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No if involved. They did create one.

Nothing happened beyond a small island in the Channel being contaminated with anthrax for the second half of the 20th Century.

Next?

That's right. However, the report I saw back then said it was a small island of
the coast of Scotland. I forget its name. The people were evacuated, went back after the war, and then re-evacuated. Anthrax spores are longer lived
than other forms of bacteria.
 
I first heard about this on NBC Nightly News back in the '70s. The British were
actually developing an anthrax bomb. What if they did?

Another form of deterent? Honestly, as long as the USSR has nukes pointing at you, the British will never seriously consider using it. Then the news leaks out, and you have thousands of people in the streets protesting biological weapons while the superpowers engage in a biological warfare race. Assuming minimal butterflies, the fate of soviet germ warfare scientists after the collapse of the warsaw pact in relation to terrorists is a worrying prospect. Finally, I can easily see a labour government scrapping the bomb for various reasons (mostly moral).

Net result: Somewhere between a visibly identical world to one ravaged by manmade epidemics.
 
Well, since the British did the initial tests in 1942 I suppose it might be interesting to run a what-if on them using Anthrax weapons during World War II...
 
Well, since the British did the initial tests in 1942 I suppose it might be interesting to run a what-if on them using Anthrax weapons during World War II...

Only if you want London to get a dose of Nerve Agent as a response , Seriouslly Bio Weapons are a NO-NO for Western Democracies. Remember the German's have weapon systems with the range and payload to deliver crushing blows to civilian populations 50-60 V-1's a day loaded with 100lbs of Sarin and a dispersel system.
 
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