They have. They have used non nuclear ICBMs twice against Ukraine which can be armed with a nuclear warhead.
Theyr Iskander both type M and Type K (Short to medium range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles) can be armed with a nuclear payload and fly dozens of times each month.
Theyr military doctrine is based around nuclear weapons since decades. You'd need to be an idiot to seriously doubt they have functionial nukes.
They might not have 8000 ready to use, but a couple hundred to fire immediatly are enough to cause serious damage.
I hope you’re trying to be funny lol
We keep diseases around and consistently assess how they adapt/mutate, and how to prevent them killing people again.
Diseases morph and change to outlast the treatments we’ve created, all the time.
No, officially Russia is the only country that keeps active smallpox in storage. Everyone else keeps inert versions for study. The Russian version can then back into historical smallpox.
On a genuine note, the plague continues to exist in mongolia because of, primarily, marmots giving the plague a nice bit ecosystem. And not caring about borders, often travels into China and siberia, so this lab is designed to try and stop that.
How They Did It: They ordered short pieces of DNA by mail using genetic sequence information found publicly on the internet. They stitched the pieces together to match the 7,500-base RNA genome of the poliovirus and added a cell-free human cell extract to assemble infectious viral particles.
The Result: The synthetic virus behaved like the real thing and paralyzed or killed mice in laboratory tests.
Purpose and Impact Funding: The research was partly funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to understand biosecurity threats.
Biosecurity Warning: The scientists wanted to prove that pathogens could be manufactured from scratch using mail-order chemicals without needing a natural sample of the virus. This sparked global debates about regulating gene sequences and the security risks of synthetic biology.
They don’t have to manufacture it, we have it here in the U.S. in the wild. A few people get it every year or so. If it is the pneumonic form that’s bad.
Among other things, in order to test possible antibiotics on it. The plague is endemic to the steppes. They need to be able to treat it.
Loads of labs around the world are growing cultures of MRSA, salmonella, tuberculosis, etc. It's the way we get better medical care. I once got a tour of a lab in Montreal studying Ebola. It had a lot of redundant systemsto keep everyone safe. These kinds of places are the reason we have vaccine candidates now.
Is it possible that some countries are also doing some bioweapons research on the side? Absolutely. But so far, there's no evidence that's what's happening here.
Same reason why russians for twelve years already stuck in steppes near Donetsk
They want to exterminate all Ukrainians but can’t do it with conventional weapons
We...already have super-antibiotic resistant bacteria?
And we already have groundbreaking research showing that bacteria can pass genes/genetic traits to each other...
So a bacteria with natural resistance to antibiotics can share that with Yersina Pestis without human intervention?
Bacteria can share genes with each other through a process called horizontal gene transfer. This can occur between bacteria of the same or different species via several mechanisms, under the right conditions. Gene transfer leads to genetic variation in bacteria and poses a significant problem when it comes to the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. https://www.reactgroup.org/toolbox/understand/antibiotic-resistance/transfer-of-antibiotic-resistance/
So maybe leave the science to the experts & not just yell out "gain of function" fearmongering?
Because we have to learn how the world works! If you want to learn how bacteria** **genetics presents phenotypical (how a specific gene works to give it a new or enhanced biological traits) which help scientists understand disease mechanisms, predict viral evolution, and design effective vaccines and treatments.
We can't just sit & watch bacteria develop using old-fashion ways like...time... how else do we learn how bacteria evolve without...trying to force them to evolve & watch as it happens?
Scientific research is amazing, powerful, and sometimes dangerous. There is a certain amount og hubris in altering life, forcing evolution and then thinking we can control it. They didn't, and now someone is dead. With luck, they will be the only one. I live outside Ft. Dietrich, so I may be a little sensitive. Lol
You have no evidence they didn't ? Do you? You have no evidence to back your claim? You're rely on fear & emotion?
There's hubris in ALL science? We split the atom? We're trying to live in space where no life lives?
Now run the numbers on how many people have been saved because we figured out how to force e.Coli to evolve & produce insulin for diabetics? Yknow, putting in genes that allow a bacteria to "gain a function" that great advanced medicine?
"Recombinant human insulin is commercially produced using Escherichia coli (E. coli) by inserting synthetic human insulin genes into bacterial plasmids to manufacture the hormone via fermentation"
We have proven that a bioweapon can wipe out the population of the US, why wouldn't every country be working on that? Magas will be out there sneering and coughing the plague on kids and stuff.
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u/Spare_Sheepherder772 6h ago
Why are the Russians manufacturing the plague again??