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Biological War by Annie Jacobsen — What If It’s Already Here?
Biological War does something unsettlingly effective: Annie Jacobsen constructs a hypothetical biological catastrophe while attaching almost every stage of it to something that already exists — documented vulnerabilities, historical programs, institutional failures and experts who have spent their careers thinking about what happens when containment breaks down.The result reads with the momentum of a thriller but is presented as investigative warning. Jacobsen follows a biological crisis from its earliest moments through cascading failures in public health, government, infrastructure and…
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