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Soviet scientists who defected to the US later admitted their government signed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972 — then secretly built a massive bioweapons arsenal anyway.
Annie Jacobsen is the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author who interviewed the defectors who exposed it.
We cover:
- Why Nixon unilaterally destroyed the US bioweapons arsenal in 1969
- What Soviet defectors said motivated Russia to cheat on the treaty it signed
- The chilling story a Soviet scientist told about being asked if Ebola on a steering wheel would kill a target
- Why Jacobsen believes mistrust between nations is more dangerous than the weapons themselves.
Everybody in the business of preventing biological warfare knows whatever they build can also escape the lab.
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Soviet scientists who defected to the US later admitted their government signed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972 — then secretly built a massive bioweapons arsenal anyway.
Annie Jacobsen is the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author who interviewed the defectors who exposed it.
We cover:
- Why Nixon unilaterally destroyed the US bioweapons arsenal in 1969
- What Soviet defectors said motivated Russia to cheat on the treaty it signed
- The chilling story a Soviet scientist told about being asked if Ebola on a steering wheel would kill a target
- Why Jacobsen believes mistrust between nations is more dangerous than the weapons themselves.
Everybody in the business of preventing biological warfare knows whatever they build can also escape the lab.
———
📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/yt
🌠 Have a .edu email and live in the USA 🇺🇸? You automatically win a meteorite: BrianKeating.com/edu
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🎯 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon — get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: patreon.com/drbriankeating
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📚 My books:
Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): amzn.to/2sa5UpA
Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un
🌐 More:
🏄♂️ Twitter: twitter.com/BrianKeating
📚 Substack briankeating.substack.com/ss
✍️ Blog: briankeating.com/blog
🎙️ Audio-only: briankeating.com/podcast
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