Topic
Pandemics
Large-scale infectious disease outbreaks and the political systems built around them.
Health
Annie Jacobsen says Soviet scientists engineered plague with a euphoria gene so victims would go to discos
Jacobsen’s bioweapon nightmare is not just a germ that kills, it is a germ that allegedly hacks the victim into becoming its hype man.
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture
Annie Jacobsen says the U.S. has a classified devolution plan to send the president alone to a cold site in a 100 percent fatal plague
The national security writer says the public name is known, the actual program is classified, and the creepiest detail is not the bunker, it is the president alone in a room with the nuclear football outside.