>>65145576
a, they do
b, diseases don't stop at the border
c, a lab leak can fuck you over bad

>>65145579
>b, diseases don't stop at the border
Depends on the disease. For example anthrax doesn't transmit very well from person to person yet it's ideal for area denial when spread by aerosol. Also you can create vaccines for your own bioweapons to protect your own. Also we are talking about strategic biological weapons, not tactical ones.

>>65145576
>completely
not it isn't

>>65145672
To a reasonable degree*

>>65145679
acceptable. it's more about if you kill millions ill do my best to kill millions too.

>>65145596
>Also we are talking about strategic biological weapons, not tactical ones
>ideal for area denial
you are going to have to chose one mate

what you are also forgetting is neutral countries.
if your bio weapon spreads well enough to be used as a strategic weapon it will spread to neutral countries. if it spreads to neutral countries it will spread back to you.
not to mention that when neutral countries start losing people due to your bio weapon that's the same as you bombing them for all intents and purpose.
>vaccine
those aren't magic elixirs they won't protect everyone. even if you can get them to everyone because you have to make them, distribute them and inject them.
all those neutral countries will also want that vaccine. if you are hoarding it and they start losing people you can bet they won't stop at writing angry letters.
bio weapons just push everything up the escalation chain really fast, it will drag in neutral countries and worst of all once you've unleashed it you have no control over it.

say you are for example the pakis and the jeets attack you. your goal is to survive so deploy bio weapons. this works in a week or so and the jeets are forced to back off. the problem is that once people get sick and the disease starts to spread it won't stop because you've signed a ceasefire. they also don't stop at borders.
so you've survived the jeet's but if your bio weapon spreads to any of the major powers they can still do you in, provided your own weapon doesn't get you first. so it's much, much better to just drop a nuke on a jeet concentration. make sure to give the powers a call with a heads up a bit before and you'll survive.

>>65145596
>strategic biological weapons, not tactical ones.
If you want one drop to depopulate a city to serve as a credible deterrent then something like anthrax won't do, you need the self-propagating properties of pathogens. But those properties are also what makes them a threat to your own.

>>65145714
You're also forgetting any nation with a decent intelligence network is going to notice you suddenly rolling out a mass vaccine program.

Both biological and chemical weapons present problems in terms of long-term, stable storage.

>>65145576
>Why don't countries acquire a similar deterrent with biological weapons when technology allows it, especially since it is much easier to hide the development of such weapons of mass destruction when compared to the development of nuclear weapons
Deterrence only works if they know you have it - what's the plan, develop a super seekrit biological weapon with a shit non-instantaneous delivery method, go public, then get your facilities rocked by a strike before you even have time to deploy it?

Nuclear deterrence works because the delivery methods are hidden and instantaneous but the possession of weapons is public knowledge.
If you could somehow load a biological weapon onto a ballistic missile to have it reliably deploy and park that on a submarine, then yeah, it could be considered deterrence. I don't think it would be particularly effective.

>>65145576
>"The Chinese are getting a little big for their britches. I know! We'll release COVID-19 into the Wuhan wet market and say it was a Chinese lab leak! While they're weakened dealing with a coof we'll cement our control over the world!"
>Result: 1.1 million US dead to 120,000 Chinese.

>>65146090
> 120,000 Chinese.
Lol, you actually believe that?

>>65146117
sure, sure, all the Chinese are dead. Funny that you only believe that in relation to COVID and they all suddenly come back alive in any other context.

>>65146090
>It just so happens that the attack from the US on China was at the same place there was a biological weapons lab
>what a coincidence

>>65146117
Covid didn't kill a single person they all died with it of old age etc

>>65145576
>Why don't countries acquire a similar deterrent with biological weapons
You think they haven't? Why do you think the Chinese and Israelis are so obsessed with DNA data?

>>65145576
Biological weapons are shit.

>>65145596
No but it does latch onto the soil and transmit well to live stock you fucking retard

>>65145596
bacteria and viruses tend to adapt very very quickly to vaccines, the flu vaccine needs to be tuned every year nowadays. I guess it's possible to remove Asia entirely if you make a virus that only activates if there's no milk digestive enzyme in your body or something like that idk

>>65145576
>nuke
If you destroy me, i can garuantee a mutual kill
>super-aids
If you destroy me, i can garuantee everyone on earth dies of super aids
I live on the earth. If someone says they're developing super aids its not a deterrant, im nuking them first just to be safe.

>>65145576
>Nuclear deterrence is based on the ability to completely destroy an enemy with your own nuclear weapons if he launches a nuclear strike first.
No it isn't

How exactly the hell are biological weapons deployed at a strategic level anyway? An ICBM filled with aerosol cans of viruses? That sounds a lot more difficult and unreliable than a nuke