Reddit mentions: The best unconventional warfare books

I'll try to speak to that from a genetics standpoint, since I got zero experience with your situation.

Here's some slapdash data from different sources. I don't claim to be correct, just offering some ideas:

Biology and gender are not a binary state. There are numerous triggers in the genome that each control (directly and indirectly) physical and emotional aspects we call gender. These triggers can often have a range of value, and could be at odds with each other.

As a tangential example, there are theories about the genetic basis for male homosexualism. Statistically, it appears to correlate somewhat with being born as the n'th male child of one mother. Why would this matter? Well, perhaps it's advantageous, once you already have a number of masculine children who can defend the family and procreate, to start genetically hedging your bets towards aspects that masculine males don't perform as well at. You still have a being that is able to procreate as a male if needed, but maybe better fills roles that the manly male children perform poorly at.

Remember, that children of one parent all carry mostly the same genes. Even if the homosexual male child himself never produces children, if his presence in the family enhances the survival of the family and the other children and grandchildren, the genes survive and are passed along.

Go read Matt Ridley, Sex and the Red Queen:
http://xenon.arcticus.com/red-queen-sex-and-evolution-human-nature-matt-ridley

Then go read Sex and War by Potts and Hayden:
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-War-Biology-Explains-Terrorism/dp/1933771577

You'll have a much better idea of what makes us keep ticking as a species, and of the fact that you are what you are and you should find yourself happiness in being who you are, regardless of what that is.

We have a lot of cultural baggage over gender and sexuality as a result of our (usually religious) traditions that seek to out-breed competing cultures. "Gotta marry the other sex, and crank out as many kids as possible without any inhibition." This mandate is good for the success of the culture, but not necessarily good for the happiness of every individual in the culture. So, be selfish and look out for who is important to you. I hope you find peace and happiness with whatever gender you identify with.

I loved biomedical pop-sci with a passion when I was in high school. "Stiff" was on my bookshelf for sure. Didn't read Atul Gawande's stuff until later, but enjoyed them very much. My favorites from when I was a teen were:

• The Ghost Map, which is sort of about cholera, but really about epidemiology
  
  
• Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
  
  
• The Hot Zone (Ebola) and The Demon in the Freezer (Smallpox)
  
  
• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
  
  and others, such as The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down. All are great reads.

> The most revolutionary thing is to "Trust but Verify", as GamerGate has popularized as a social concept.

Fun fact the "trust but verify" originated apparently in Russia and Gorbachev introduced it to Reagan during their initial attempt of nuclear disarmament talks. It apparently became a favourite of Reagan and he kept using it a lot. Source

mp3 the only one

used copy of physical book Demon in the freezer. I believe there are a few "very good" condition for a penny!

Thanks for the contest. And good luck with the bike! (fingers crossed)

I've been reading The Islanders series to make the teenage girl that lives in my brain happy.

And also The Demon in the Freezer to keep the science nerdy, mystery lover in me happy.

I've read this from multiple sources, most recently: http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Energy-Rock-Shaped-World/dp/0670020648

I'm sure some uranium came from Canada, as they needed a tremendous amount of 238 to produce enough 235 to make a viable bomb (99.3% of all uranium is 238, and you only get .7% 235 from that if you process it as well as possible), but not all of it and more then likely not even most of it.

In fact Wikipedia details this saying most of the uranium was from Africa or possibly captured, Canada is not mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy Go down to Development of the bomb
"Most of the uranium necessary for the production of the bomb came from the Shinkolobwe mine and was made available thanks to the foresight of the CEO of the High Katanga Mining Union, Edgar Sengier, who had 1000 tons of uranium ore transported to a New York warehouse in 1939. A small amount may have come from a captured German submarine, U-234, after the German surrender in May 1945.[24] Other sources state that at least part of the 1100 tons of uranium ore and uranium oxide captured by US troops in the second half of April 1945 in Stassfurt, Germany, became 235U for the bomb.[25] The majority of the uranium for Little Boy was enriched in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, primarily by means of electromagnetic separation in calutrons and through gaseous diffusion plants, with a small amount contributed by the cyclotrons at Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory. The core of Little Boy contained 64 kg of uranium, of which 50 kg was enriched to 88%, and the remaining 14 kg at 50%. With enrichment averaging 82.68%, it could reach about 2.5 critical masses. "Fat Man" and the Trinity "gadget", by way of comparison, had five critical masses."

There is an argument using evolutionary theory that agriculture was only adopted to increase group fitness at the cost of indivual fitness.

Lots of civilisation diseases started with the adoption of agriculture.

So there is the argument that agriculture made civilisation possible but at the cost of pure indivual strength and physical prowess.

There is lots of evidence that early agricultural societies had less than healthy members compared to hunter gatherers.

When you think about it, the indivual skills of a warrior in a large army is less important than pure numbers, most armies in the past were farmers called to war once a year, and yet the prevailed most of the time against nomad societies whos way of life made them formidable indivual warriors like the steppe people, just by numbers alone.

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If someone is interested where these theories come from, I recommend these books:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0452288193/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0452288193

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0996139516/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0996139516


https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domesticating/dp/0691178437/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=joseph+henrich&qid=1558984106&s=gateway&sprefix=joseph+henr&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Genes-Alone-Transformed-Evolution/dp/0226712125/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=not+by+genes+alone&qid=1558984151&s=gateway&sprefix=Not+by+ge&sr=8-1

If you're interested in topics like contagions and the CDC, I highly recommend "The Demon in the Freezer" if you've never read it...it's about smallpox. It's a fascinating book and the story of stopping smallpox is a nail-biter. Highly recommend, link:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0345466632

This concept was actually a really big interest of mine in my graduate career (though specifically as it related to the Roman Empire). Peter Turchin has written some good and approachable books on how political instability rises as populations approach their maximum possible density.

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His first book on the subject that reads very nicely: https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/0452288193

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A short (though fairly jargon-y) article on these effects on Roman instability: http://peterturchin.com/PDF/Turchin_SDEAS_2005a.pdf

If you're looking for interesting contagious illnesses the classic biological warfare agents might be appealing:

Hantavirus
Rift Valley Fever
All the other viral hemorrhagic fevers
Plague
Smallpox
Glanders
Anthrax
Tularemia

There's dozens more, but that's a start. Smallpox could be an interesting topic. If you have time to research the topic [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Once-Future-Threat-Smallpox/dp/0802139396) is a great resource.

The United States Military, to the extent that DARPA is a part of it, has been researching super-soldier type tech for a while. One book that comprehensively profiles this work is Mind Wars by Jonathan Moreno.

The U.S. is no stranger to EEGs, tDCSs, other brain-electronic interfaces, optimal nutrition, cognitive offloading to computers, and drugs. Some of these technologies are considered essential developments for future warfighting due to the increased processing capacity required for managing the larger host of sophisticated technologies and the increased information input that they give. Funny enough I don't believe this is where the interesting developments lie. For that I would have to give credit to hackspaces, particularly the biology oriented ones, for being endlessly perverse.

I might know too much but all of this information is in the public domain.

I had the same New Year's resolution a few years ago and ended up reading 65 books that year. I ran out of books I wanted to read and scrambled to find more. So you'll have weeks you'll read anything you can get your hands on which can be hit or miss, but I liked being taken out of my normal, nonfiction, reading patterns.

Here are a few If my favorites:

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Demon In The Freezer by Richard Preston

The Snakehead by Patrick Keefe

John Dies At The End by David Wong

Into Thin Air by John Krakauer

Death's Acre by Dr. Bill Bass

Biohazard by Ken Alibek

1)Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1926-1945 - David Kennedy

2)From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776 - George Herring

3)History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective - E. K. Hunt and Mark Lautzenheiser

4)When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy - William Silber

5)Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

6)A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present - Howard Zinn

7)20th Century Baseball Chronicle: A Year-By-Year History of Major League Baseball (what? you asked for history books sitting on my shelf)

8)Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World - Jack Kelly

and currently I've just started working on U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective - Charles Calomiris. Should be interesting since it was published in 2000...

edit: I like Drited's idea, so I'll take some time to add on some stuff. 1, 2, 4, and 6 give me perspective on how government institutions interact with each other and with the public they are supposed to serve as time and events take place, shaping the history of the US. 3 has given me insight into the evolution of Neoclassical and Labor-value (Marxian) economics. Though Hunt writes with a very heavy labor bias, his book has shown me how a persons beliefs affect there analysis, even when claiming to be value-free. In it he discusses the origins of marginal productivity and efficient markets, and his writings have allowed me to grasp in economic terms why certain ideas are flawed, even though I already knew them to be false after I had studied Psychology. 5 and 8 are a bit different because to me, they remind me that it's not what actually happened that matters, our interpretation of history relies solely on the importance we give those events. All and all, the above texts give me a longer time frame in which to view current events. In fact that's why I like companies such as GOOG and GS so much is because the above readings allow me to look beyond balance sheets, and gives me alternative ways to judge a potential investment. I understand GOOG's importance to the internet world, and the internets importance to our world, and how that relationship might continue on into the future. Stuff like that

Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik is a nice way of looking at chemistry from a materials standpoint and isn't completely bogged down in diagrams of formulas.

The Chemists' War: 1914-1918 by Martin Freemantle shows how chemistry changed warfare forever and is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

The very short introduction to the elements and the very short introduction to molecules by Philip Ball are interesting reads that will provide a good basis of where to develop your understanding.

Chemistry is a very broad discipline so i wouldn't say this list is exhaustive.

You might want to investigate physical chemistry if you're into thermodynamics, or organic chemistry if you like lipids and plastics, pharmaceuticals if you want to be useful, and then there is inorganic chemistry if you don't.

I hope you find something that resonates with you.

> Anyone have a link to the list of the 239 experiments [dates, loci, methodology]?

"Successful indeed, according to Leonard Cole, the director of the Terror Medicine and Security Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His book, “Clouds of Secrecy,” documents the military’s secret bioweapon tests over populated areas."

http://osnetdaily.com/2015/07/exposed-one-of-the-largest-biowarfare-experiments-in-history-was-conducted-on-unsuspecting-residents-of-san-francisc/

https://www.amazon.com/Clouds-Secrecy-Armys-Warfare-Populated/dp/082263001X?tag=TIsafetynet-20

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/over-100-us-labs-secretly-carrying-out-illegal-dangerous-biological-warfare-experiments

You may need a FOIA request to obtain the two-volume report (noted below).

"The idea, according to a two-volume report the Army gave to the senate health subcommittee yesterday, was to learn how to wage biological warfare and defend against it."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/03/09/army-conducted-239-secret-open-air-germ-warfare-tests/b17e5ee7-3006-4152-acf3-0ad163e17a22/?utm_term=.ed47c6564226

Various videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1GAaWy3HTw

Although not specific to these tests, this is an outstanding documentary (free on youtube) www.beyondtreason.com

You might want to read this.

The history of Uranium is actually pretty interesting.

Don't misunderstand, Matt Ridley is a legitimate academic and approaches the subject as a scientist would. He clearly adopts a neoclassical view of economics which not everyone would agree with (and there are aspects that I don't agree with), but that doesn't make him a partisan.

Others have written on the subject as well. Friedman wrote Hot, Flat, and Crowded and Sex and War by Malcolm Potts also provides a scientists perspective on the subject.

If you want more peer reviewed stuff, population economics is an entire sub-discipline. Just look into the citations of the above authors.

I recommend Biohazard. On the edge of my seat most of the time. Author defected to US and wrote the book. I had hoped you had read it. I wanted to hear your take on it.

Ever listen to Art Bell, the radio host?

GMU Huh. Chain Bridge road. 123. Favorite DC monument. Mine is the einstein bronze sculpture and the Awakening.

Biohazard - non fiction book link
http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World-Told/dp/0385334966

Recommended reading: Peter Turchin's War and Peace and War where he spends quite a bit of time discussing this idea originally from Ibn Khaldun.

I'd translate loosely as "socially cohesiveness" / "tribal loyalty".

Wow a book on amazon you really proved your point.

Here is a book on "how to build an atomic bomb": http://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Nuclear-Bomb-Destruction/dp/1560256036

that must mean that it is easy to build an atomic bomb huh?

The Ken Alibek book was also a great read.

> do you believe that harmful traits can't intentionally be added to organism via modern genetic engineering techniques?

I recommend you read Demon In the Freezer.

https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0345466632

The concept of weaponizing biology is old.

"GMO" is an industry term for a certain type of crop, correct?

You want studies or a book?

One of the most profound books i have ever read is this on how states rise and fall. It's the most enlighting thing I have ever read, it changed how I view the world fundamentaly

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0452288193/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0452288193

Its a popular book without the mathematical models behind it

Here is the mathematical version

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691116695/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0691116695

But its quite expensive and only available as hardcover but there should be a different version coming out soon


For the study on cooperation this

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0996139516/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517513099&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Peter+turchin&dpPl=1&dpID=41Ux9xQvfIL&ref=plSrch


On cultural evolution this books makes an incredible strong argument

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691178437/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0691178437


On how religion influences pro social behaviour this

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691169748/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517513482&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Ara+Norenzayan&dpPl=1&dpID=61TgLU80vIL&ref=plSrch

Gunpowder by Jack Kelly. It was fascinating to learn how many scientific discoveries, modern inventions, and social changes were influenced by the discovery of black powder.

Educate yourselves ladies. Smallpox is one of my favorite bugs right behind Ebola and Marburg.

http://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Once-Future-Threat-Smallpox/dp/0871138301
http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-Richard-Preston/dp/0345466632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321538440&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-True-Story/dp/0385495226/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321538440&sr=1-6

Have you read Demon in the Freezer and/ or The Hot Zone? http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-Richard-Preston/dp/0345466632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291143784&sr=1-1 Good stuff.

This is correct. Hitler was gassed. Read in this book. Great book given to me about history of chemical ware care. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400032334/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=41kvrF5b0wL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL100_SR100%2C100_&refRID=139QJPBB4DBKY84MKVFV

Recently I started reading Sex and War and in there the author points out that chimpanzee troops and human gangs share alot of similarities. They form strong bonds and defend each other while fighting against other groups.

My brother-in-law did his dissertation discussing president Eisenhower and the American nuclear doctrine. In fact here is a link to his book :) https://www.amazon.com/Abolishing-Taboo-Eisenhower-American-1945-1961/dp/1907677313

Another good read is this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Energy-Rock-Shaped-World/dp/014311672X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495955279&sr=1-1&keywords=Uranium

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385334966?pc_redir=1411972918&robot_redir=1 I've been wanting to read this, it seem interesting

I got some funny looks reading How to Build a Nuclear Bomb, but nothing came of it, hehe.

Rabid, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Ghost Map are all books I've found fascinating about various diseases.

I would second /u/Amprvector's suggestion of both The Emperor of all Maladies, and The Selfish Gene as well.

If you really want to know...

It's infectivity is very low compared to other diseases and especially viruses. One big concern could be smallpox though. I've heard The Demon in the Freezer is a good read for this.

> I think humans have a natural aversion to violence, that just makes sense from a self-preservation aspect, I think the glorification of violence is something that is taught to us.


You have that backwards, violence is a base urge, it comes from instincts, a desire for peace has been in bedded through education and human conscientiousness.


Humans will also never change.


If you want a better understanding you could buy this book, I highly recommend it.

The British experimented with weaponising Anthrax and Botulinum toxin, circa 1940. Can't recall how far they got off the top of my head, but I've got a lovely book on the subject waiting for me at home.

For more info, read Richard Preston's Demon in the Freezer. It's a fascinating (and scary as fuck) book that also covers smallpox.

Richard Preston has already written it

Well then maybe you shouldn't read this or this. I am terrified of smallpox and ebola/hemorrhagic fevers thanks to Richard Preston.

The Demon in the Freezer

Instead, read The Hot Zone and/or Demon in the Freezer. They're scarier.

The Demon in the Freezer
The Quiet Room

Actually I have Demon in the Freezer to read next. https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0345466632. It’s about anthrax.

https://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World-Told/dp/0385334966

> The Soviets also spent a considerable amount of effort to weaponize smallpox in a variety of different ways

Biohazard by Ken Alibek is a terrifying read about their work on this. Very much worth reading if you would like to know what the Soviets were up to in the 70s-80s with bioweapons.

I haven't actually seen the formula for the precursors, but I read somewhere that they and/or the nerve agent itself produce HF in the presence of water. Like you'd want to be around that.

Quick Google, finds a book written in 2007 that talks about novichoks and mentions HF as a hydrolysis product.

Seems Murray is wrong about nobody even knowing if Novichoks existed.

Here is the book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Chemical-Biological-Warfare-Agents-ebook/dp/B0093UMLTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521324793&sr=1-1&keywords=9781420003291

And here's another book that discusses the potentially weaponized Russian smallpox strains in a lot more detail: http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World-Told/dp/0385334966

The Collapse of Complex Societies

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall

Genes, Peoples, and Languages

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

If you want to be more disturbed read Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

Random Question - You said you loved the cold war, right? I just finished "Uranium the rock that shaped the world". Very very interesting in depth history presented in a good journalist first person mixed 3rd person format, about the history of Uranium, from it's early reaches all the way through WW2, Cold War and into the current middle east crisis, check it out

http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Energy-Rock-Shaped-World/dp/014311672X

If you want a good, nonfiction book about this disease that will scare the living crap out of you, you can't do better than this one:

The Demon In The Freezer

A lot of fiction in this thread, I'd like to mention some non-fiction:

1. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden and James Risen - Excellent story of the CIA and KGB from early 80s through the fall of the Soviet Union. Really covers in depth US operations inside the Soviet Union, important defections by senior Soviet military and intelligence personnel, and significant counterintelligence failures (Aldrich Ames). The best part is this is not a history review written by some academic third party, it was written by the guy who actually worked Moscow Station for the CIA during the period and knew Ames and handled many key defections. Moreover it contains a lot of detail on actual tradecraft methods.
   
   
2. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman. This book really goes in depth on the Soviet chemical, biological, and radiological program, as well as the effort towards disarmament. What the Soviets dreamed up was actually quite frightening and they did much of it despite treat obligations. This book is interesting for two reasons: 1) The Soviets (And as conveyed by Phillip and Elizabeth in the Americans) really believed Reagan was a nut whom wanted to leave them on the ash heap of history, which drove their paranoia and pursuit of WMD; 2) It shows behind the scenes that Reagan actually wanted to reduce nuclear weapons and loathed the idea of nuclear war. A significant portion of the book focuses on the impact of key Soviet defectors that provided the US insight in to the Soviet WMD program.
   
   
3. Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century - Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud. Farewell was the code name for Vladimir Vetrov, a Soviet KGB Line X (Just like Oleg), whom was responsible for conducting S&T collection operations against the US. He became an agent for the French, and turned over heaps of information on Soviet S&T intelligence objectives and operations worldwide. His intelligence was passed on to the UK and US, and was important to Reagan in negotiations with the Soviet Union. His betrayal caused 100+ Soviet S&T intelligence officers to be expelled from US, the UK, and France. Excellent discussion on the motivation of an agent and stresses at maintaining two lives (Vetrov, in addition to working for the French, was also cheating on his wife... talk about stressful). Also a lot of interesting information on tradecraft such as signals for meetings and dead drops.

Just to say, there's a book by Richard Preston called Demon in the Freezer that goes into detail on how smallpox was eradicated from nature. And how it was lost into the unknown. Quite a nice read and the author really does his job well. It's somewhat of a mix of fiction and non-fiction but both parts are scary believable.

Foolish humans! You can't stop a cat by denying him a library card because of This

Demon in the Freezer

You will spend the next few weeks trying to figure out how to move to an isolated place, where no human being will ever find you again. And it's all freakin, true...

www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0345466632

I read this in high school. Shit was bananas

this band

this book

this movie

this game

in general generic words are usualy bad things to call a franchise since they are hard to pin down culturaly, try to google "echo" and guess what work im talking about. "Alien" was more the exception than the rule.

You should totally read this book. Or maybe The Hot Zone or Demon in the Freezer. All are very entertaining and terrifying reads.

These sorts of weapons are scary because in some cases their use is probably strategically preferable because they can destroy populations without destroying infrastructure, which is useful if you want to invade somewhere. Also, they can get out of hand and spread on their own once deployed, unlike a bullet.

I'm in no way an expert; just speculating.

you should also read BIOHAZARD by Ken Abilek. he ran Biopreparat in the old Soviet Union. he defected after the breakup. it gives first hand accounts of the Soviet bioweapons program, and is scary as hell.

You should read The Demon in The Freezer. As someone studying genetics from a Russian Cold War defector, this book scared the crap outta me. My prof. said he could engineer a deadly super bug with homemade equipment in his basement. It is scary how simple and deadly genetic engineering can be.

I made the mistake of reading it right before I read The Demon in the Freezer, which, even though I know that Preston has a tendency to exaggerate (as was mentioned in Spillover, actually), made for a profoundly depressing few days. "If the bats animals don't kill us, we're going to kill us. ohgodwhy."

The small pox vaccine is the only one I’m aware of that leaves a mark, most people in the U.S. used to have one but its much less common since small pox was all but eradicated.

The only small pox left in the world is government bioweapons and if those break out A) we’re fucked globally and B) the vaccine probably wont make much of a difference since they’ve been tinkering with them to make them worse than they were naturally. Check out Robert Preston’s “The Demon In The Freezer”

Irony is that Spicer has a tiny tiny scrap of history that kinda backs him up.

Germany had new version of chemical weapons that is much better than what allies were using. But allies didn't know that these new 'nerve agents' even existed. And so German scientists like Fritz Haber were hamstrung by Hitler to not use these weapons because 1. he was a survivor of Mustard Gas in WWI, and 2. he also worried that he might win chemical battle with his new Tabun and Sarin gasses, but he'd lose the chemical war as the Allies would drop the tons and tons of stockpiled Mustard we had back then.

So Spicey probably was told this little nugget of truth and he forgot about Zyclon B being used in the Holocaust and then realized he just violated Godwin's law on behalf of the United States / President.

Stupidity like this should be painful.

SOURCE: War of Nerves or just ask me, an Army Chemical Officer.