when it is nuclear weapons, people are either fatalistic or never believe its going to happen. with biological warfare or biological terrorism, it is imaginable.
and if the right plague gets loose, its lights out world, and not in a quick incandescent flash but slowly, as it spreads from the sick to the healthy, and the dead lie rotting where they fall, a Grade B movie coming to your neighborhood soon.
bugs are bugs. they dont know cows from pigs from people. they dont know defensive research from offensive research. they dont know preventive vaccines from air-burst bombs. hell, they dont even know if they’re good or bad.