Chapter 900: Be on Guard Against Others
[o]423 Chapter 900: Being on guard against others is essential
"Genetic weapons?" Xiao Zhangqi felt a little funny after hearing this. "Isn't this a shameless plot?" Small,
"It's hard to say." Fan Wubing shook his head.
There are still some differences between genetic weapons and traditional bacterial weapons or viral weapons. The main reason is that the technology used has completely changed.
From the beginning of the twentieth century. Not long after the germ theory was born, people began to experiment with germ warfare, and germ warfare began during World War II. Soon after nuclear fission was confirmed, it was immediately used in nuclear weapons experiments, and the world's first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945. After that, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan became the only places in human history to have been hit by nuclear attacks. Two cities. The subsequent discovery of the double helix structure of DNA marked a milestone in modern science.
With the continuous application of genetic engineering technology in the military field, some countries are blatantly ignoring the ban on biological weapons. In the name of researching thin vaccines, a lot of money and manpower have been invested in research on infectious diseases and microorganisms. On the basis of biological weapons, we will develop more lethal genetic weapons.
Although the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological, Biological and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction in 1971, more than 100 countries have joined the treaty so far. However, this disclosure lacked a supervision and verification mechanism from the beginning. From 1960 to the present, there have been a total of 121 well-documented bioterrorism incidents around the world. Among them, biological genes were used to directly carry out premeditated murders. There were sixty-six cases.
Genetic weapons target a specific race, study the genetic characteristics of different races and populations, clone certain bacteria or viruses, and lead to the demise of a specific race or population. It uses genetic engineering technology, especially recombination technology, to change the genetic material of non-pathogenic microorganisms.
one. The molecule contains multiple genes. After studying the concave and genetic codes of the specific ethnic group, a certain antigen of the specific ethnic group is found and destroyed. and create a blood disease that may go unnoticed for many years, affect the birth rate and infant survival rate of a certain race, or increase the prevalence of the race until it reduces the population of an entire race.
Genetic weapons can be delivered by humans, conventional artillery, warships, aircraft, missiles or balloons. Since bacteria can multiply and spread naturally under suitable conditions, genetically modified bacteria or microorganisms can be placed on the enemy's front lines, rear areas, rivers, lakes, cities, and traffic fortresses to achieve the effect of killing without a knife.
"Due to the genetic makeup of different races and groups, they are susceptible to certain diseases. Changing genes can control the functional structure of biological traits. According to the needs of combat, the ear can arbitrarily recombine genes and insert them into some pathogenic bacteria or viruses. Genes that can resist common vaccines or drugs, produce pathogenic bacteria with significant drug resistance, or insert pathogenic genes into some microorganisms that are not originally pathogenic.
Create new biological agents that are contagious in attacking members of the same species with specific genetics. Even if it is discovered, it is difficult to treat because outsiders cannot decipher the genetic code of the pathogenic bacteria.
Genes that damage human intelligence can also be moved into some bacteria. When people of a certain race become infected with this bacteria. Normal intelligence will be lost. There are currently more than 70 kinds of biological agents in the world, and no country can guarantee that they will not spread and be lost. "Shen Manhua introduced Zhang Qi, "Gene weapons are threatening, sudden, concealable, diverse, easy to use, and low-cost. In the 1980s, scientists from the former Soviet Union developed an untreatable variant of the bubonic plague virus. The United States has also used the biocatalytic function of cells to separate the vesicles of a virus and then combine them with another virus to form a highly toxic heat toxin. Twenty grams of the heat toxin can kill 60 people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people could die in one blow, which is dozens of times more powerful than a nuclear bomb
In order to paralyze a country's economy, terrorists can isolate specific toxins to kill crops or poultry. If biological bacterial virus infection occurs in densely populated big cities, in addition to poisoning people, livestock, and crops, In addition to injury, it will also cause long-term psychological trauma to people. Create psychological fear in large areas of society. An attack by a genetic weapon on a city would be far more destructive than a chemical or nuclear explosion. For example, if one hundred kilograms of anthrax powder is spread from an airplane over Washington, one million to three million people can die.
Genetic weapons can attack people, animals, plants and crops, food, water sources, buildings and other targets. Biological and bacterial preparations can be sprayed on a large scale by aircraft, or they can be discarded and put into use at any time. The ways in which the victims are infected with the virus are also diverse. Among the infected people, infected people of different generations coexist.
Due to the long incubation period of biological bacteria and viruses, everyone's clinical symptoms are different, which will bring great difficulties to diagnosis and treatment. Genetic terrorist attacks do not require complicated professional packaging and related equipment and devices. They can be freeze-dried or made into capsules, or placed in bottles and carried with you. And because of the infectious agents of biological bacteria and viruses, it was not done at that time. Terrorists can easily evacuate.
Since the attack of genetic weapons does not require multiple material preparations in advance and is independent of time and space, it often catches people off guard. Therefore, genetic weapons can change the nature and mode of war in the post-information age and have a strong impact on the enemy. psychological deterrent effect. Biological bacterial preparations can cause large-scale primary infection areas and secondary or higher reinfection areas, and bacterial infection areas can easily spread. Blockade of infected areas requires the cooperation of the whole society, and the workload is far beyond ordinary people's imagination.
If one-tenth of the area and people in a region are infected with biological bacteria and viruses, the consequences will be disastrous. Even if the health and medical conditions and facilities in this area are advanced and sufficient, the hospital, treatment and medical capabilities have been completely lost. The treatment of infected objects and infected dead people will be a worldwide problem, and it will inevitably cause a world-wide problem. Sexual fear.
"It's too scary!" Zhang Qi felt a little cold and huddled next to Fan Wubing and said.
"Actually, there is no need to worry too much." Fan Wubing patted Zhang Qi's little head and said to her with a smile, "Although genetic weapons are indeed very powerful, unless everyone can't survive and want to die together, Otherwise, no one would dare to release this monster. After all, it is uncontrollable, unless modern technology has accurately grasped the most important aspects of genetic technology and can modify it as it pleases:
What Fan Wubing said is indeed the truth. Until now, human beings are still in a blind man's way of exploring themselves. Many key issues are still unclear, just like a "neurosystem problem" , it is difficult to solve, not to mention how complicated the exploration of the brain is. As for the exploration of genes, it is even more complicated. Even if it can affect the shape of certain gene fragments, it may not be guaranteed to be manufactured by this method. The finished product will definitely behave according to your design intention.
"Do you also have research in this area?" Zhang Qi suddenly asked a very sensitive question. Fan Wufeng Cube denied, "How is that possible?"
However, after looking at Zhang Qi's disbelief, he whispered, "Of course, we are also studying some ways to improve the genetic defects of some colored or colorless people. This genetic weapon is completely It has nothing to do with it. We have a very pure scientific research purpose and want to find a way to completely solve the problem of birth, aging, illness and death through the study of human genes. Our purpose is noble, and it is the same as those crazy terrorists. There’s no comparison.”
Zhang Qi thought, since the genetic defects can be found, then the defects can be filled or effective attacks can be carried out to target them. It's all just a thought on the part of the operator. Almost all research institutions flaunt their impartiality. But what they are actually doing is hard to say.
In recent years, international human genome sequencing research has made great progress. Genetic engineering technology and biotechnology have become technologies for producing new bacterial and new virus genes that invade plants, animals and humans. The production and application of genes will develop into a new gene industry.
Every leap forward in new drugs and vaccines opens the way to creating deadly germs, with the ultimate goal of using them as genetic weapons. Gene therapy can re-select the virus so that it destroys the body's ability to avoid addiction and disrupts the body's healing process. Genetic weapon manufacturers can use genetic technology to synthesize genes, bacteria, and diseases. Synthetic flu attacks can cause symptoms that are difficult to distinguish from natural flu. People are not the only targets of bacterial attacks by terrorists. Crops and poultry can also be targets, and the recovery period of crops and poultry is much longer than that of people.
Human Genomics. It is based on the genome to explore the relationship between the genome, human body functions and diseases. It aims to discover new disease-related genes, and then complete disease-related gene diagnosis and gene therapy, thereby creating new diagnostic methods, treatment approaches, and drugs and tools with application value. Three years later, the human gene sequencing task and genetic map will be completed. Since the genes of people of different races are different, this provides technological possibilities for the manufacturers of genetic weapons, and the genetic technology arsenal is the most difficult to detect. A sort of.
At present, scientists have completed the genetic maps of six dangerous bacteria, including tuberculosis, cholera, anthrax and rat fatigue. Terrorists can check their newly sequenced maps through any website.
For example, if the genetic sequencing of the "Spanish Flu" virus that was prevalent in 1918 is completed, terrorists can use the genetic sequencing of this virus to artificially synthesize newer and more lethal influenza viruses. Once this virus spreads, it may cause more serious consequences than anthrax and smallpox. You must know that the Spanish flu virus that broke out in Europe in 1918 spread to many parts of the world, killing 40 million people.
"Since the 1990s, the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, Israel and other countries have begun to study the feasibility of genetic weapons. Scientists from the British Government's Chemical and Biological Anti-Fatigue Center have used genetic technology to study genetically modified viruses. Israeli scientists have used The research results of South Africa's chromosomal weapons have discovered the genetic makeup of Arabs, especially Iraqis, and they are stepping up the development of a genetic weapon specifically to deal with Arabs, which threatens greater threats like anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, and rats. Co-toxic strains of traditional toxins such as fatigue and botulinum can be used to replicate toxic biological genes in benign organisms through drug induction and other control methods. Fan Wuyi said casually, "As for Russia, it has long been possible. Start researching the splicing of highly toxic cobra toxin genes and influenza virus genes, trying to create new influenza viruses with cobra toxins, which can cause flu symptoms in people and cause snake venom poisoning in some people, leading to paralysis and death. Germany is also secretly developing genetic weapons that can deal with antibiotics, including genetic modification of the pathogens of E. coli, cholera, and deadly viruses such as the Black Death. All in all, this seemingly peaceful world is actually full of too many unstable factors.
In fact, as gene transfer technology becomes increasingly mature and can be easily obtained anywhere in the world, mankind may face a new round of global genetic weapons competition.
The U.S. Defense Science Board's Biodefense Technology Committee believes that human genomics has enabled genetic weapons to become a new weapon of war capable of destroying urban populations. American politicians have also warned that mankind has reached the final edge of its own destiny after mastering the genetic sequencing map that can redesign itself.
Three years later, the human genome sequencing map will be successfully drawn, which will also open the door to the development of genetic weapons. Humanity's own survival will face huge threats. For example, facing the threat and challenge of genetic weapons has become a new topic in the fields of military defense and military medical research around the world.
However, Fan Wubing thought of a very important issue at this time. It seems that three years later, the famous "** incident occurred in China. All the people affected by the virus were of Asian ethnicity. Is this really true? Are genetic weapons the cause?
After thinking about this problem, he himself felt a little cautious. Not to mention his intention to harm others, but his intention to let others go could not be relaxed for a moment.
Fan Wubing has always been uneasy about Americans or Japanese.
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