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Research by the Defence Intelligence Agency into the possibility of genetically engineering a new strain of antibiotic-resistant anthrax...
� A programme to produce dried and weaponised anthrax spores, officially for testing US bio-defences, but far more spores were allegedly produced than necessary for such purposes and it is unclear whether they have been destroyed or simply stored....
In each case, the US argued the research work was being done for defensive purposes, but their legality under the BWC is questionable, the scientists argue.


{There's a army base north of here a ways. abandoned mostly or so it appears, or appeared anyway. within the last couple months signs have appeared at either end of the strip of 101 that you pass by the base on. the signs say "DO NOT PICK UP HITCHIKERS NEXT 13 MILES" it's funny cause the signs are in non-standard colors. non-standard for around here anyway. I was thinking today when I drive by maybe it's from back east that color, kind of a dirty orange. the army base still has boarded up windows and stuff, though across the highway is a brand new sort of Xfiley beige warehouse, with humvees and stuff. it's too far away to see very clear. it was a big base at one time there's like churches with plywooded windows and lots of barracks and other army-type buildings, all looking pretty well abandoned.
the only live human I've mentioned this to said she knew the area and there was a prison nearby and a state mental hospital. which on paper is true. but the fact is the mental hospital though housing the criminally deranged and dangerous is further down the highway, a good 20-30 miles and very close to a town and there's no signs of the type we're speaking of anywhere near it. the prison is miles away and though a road goes right along within spitting distance of it there are no signs of warning there. so.
we have a mental hospital whose inmates are deemd too dangerous to society to be anything but locked up, and a state prison, and neither of them have any warning signs on the major thoroughfares they sit near. and we have an abandoned(sorta) army base and at least three signs each direction warning the unwary. do not. pick up. hitchikers. from whence might those hikers be hitching one wonders. and from what?}