Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war

[Anomalocaris]

Quite frankly, the prospect of biological war worries me more than a nuclear exchange.

Boru

As it should.  Biological weapons are much less traceable, and thus are more likely to be used on substantial scale by more agents in the next few decades than nuclear weapons.    The scale and sophistication of the weaponization of biological agents by the USSR during the last decade of Cold War was far greater than is commonly realized.  Agents were specifically tailored to create symptoms that mimic other natural disease epidemics to confuse response and obscure origin.   They were designed to attack in multiple stages, so the victim suffer mild, common symptoms first, appear cured, and then be struck by a second mere severe phase of affliction, so as to maximize the length of disruption the attack causes.   Some were specifically designed to be just short of fatal if the victims are provided with prompt, and lengthy I ntensive medical care, so as to maximize panick while tie down as much resources in the the attacked society as possible.   These, like German biagent nerve chemical weapons in WWII, caused the western professionals in the field to shit in their pants after discovery.   Those biological weapon skills undoubtedly has not been lost in Russia and is extremely likely to have been acquired or surpassed in other countries since the Cold War.