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1:37:01Now PlayingAnnie Jacobsen is a journalist, investigative reporter and an author.
For decades, nuclear war has been humanity’s greatest existential fear. But the next global catastrophe may not arrive with a mushroom cloud—it could begin inside a laboratory. What would a biological attack actually look like, how quickly would it spread, and could humanity survive it?
Expect to learn why biological war is scarier than nuclear war, what the first 6 days of a bioweapon outbreak will look like, why scientists are continuing to do gain-of-function research, why plagues are more attractive than nukes, what will happen to law & order and society as a whole if a plague breaks out and much more…
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