This Artificial Enough Germ Weapons to Destroy the realm (And Now He’s Dead) [Biowarfare]

William C. Patrick III died last week. He was answerable for enough bio-weaponry to kill every single person on the earth . And several planets. And then, he spent the remaining of his life fighting against his own deadly creations.

To say the least, he was a sophisticated guy. One of his most notorious (and, sadly, somewhat recently relevant) projects was weaponized anthrax-a single gallon of which incorporates enough spores to kill every person in the world. And he made much more than a gallon. He also cooked up some germ bombs you possibly can not be so aware of, including the ominous ” Q Fever,” which the recent York Times says was designed to ” cripple foes with chills, coughing, headaches, hallucinations and fevers up to 104 degrees.” ( In an interview, however, Patrick confessed his ” favorite” was weaponized Tularemia, an obscure microbe beloved for its ability to cause incredible illness-but not death).

And how did Patrick feel about his line of work?

One the only hand, he had a steely, unnerving claim that it was a more humane process of winning wars, as he disclosed in a similar interview :

I can make an outstanding case for biological warfare as a more humane way of fighting war than with the atom bomb and chemical warfare. We are able to incapacitate a population with below 1 percent of the folk becoming ill and dying. And then we take over facilities which can be intact. If you bomb a country, you not only kill people but you destroy the very facilities which can be needed to treat them-the electricity, water, your complete infrastructure is gone whenever you bomb.

Luckily, nobody ever had to check this logic.

Then, however, the Times reveals a jovial, almost maniacal stance on his germ projects: ” His business card bore a skull and crossbones, and atop his stationery was a drawing of the bleak Reaper, the scythe labeled ” Biological Warfare” and the figure’s outstretched arm sowing germs.” Charming!

And then, in 1969, Nixon’s Pentagon had a transformation of heart, deciding that the usa didn’t want a germ arsenal to face off against the Russians. And with Nixon, went Patrick. He spent anything of his life helping the govt. devise plans to defend against the exact same kinds of bio-attacks he spent the guts of his career making possible, aiding the United Nations expose Saddam Hussein’s plan for an Iraqi germ warfare plan, and helping the FBI respond to the post-9/11 anthrax attacks-murders committed along with his own weapon.

And now, he’s gone-dead from cancer. It’s hard to eulogize a dude like this, but we predict the the Times concludes with all it’s good to know: before shuffling off this germy coil, Patrick ” expressed no regrets about his arms work, saying he was happy with memories of killing animals and finding new tips on how to produce death.” [ NY Times ]

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