Americas terrifying, secret plan to deal with biological-weapon attacks

The United States is under biological attack from a genetically modified plague.There is chaos in the streets, bloody corpses strewn on sidewalks, people killing neighbors they believe have the contagious bug for fear of it spreading.In the White House, the country’s Secretary of Defense is informing the president of the nature of the plague when the Secret Service bursts into the room and grabs the president, preparing to move him to an undisclosed location alone, far from all humanity. The National Security Advisor appears at the doorway suddenly and tells the president that he needs to “move us to Devolution.”The president complies.

And with that, the United States of America, as we know it, is done.The scenario here is fictional, but the horrors are not only possible but based on real actions, plans, and fears collected by veteran author Annie Jacobsen in her new book, “Biological War: A Scenario” (Dutton).The book lays out real worst case scenario possibilities in the event of a biological attack of genetically modified plague. Jacobsen interviewed over 50 experts and mostly former government officials including a senator, a FEMA administrator, and high-level officials from the State Department and the National Security Council. Then, she created a fictional scenario based on real possibilities, ignited by the spread of a biologically engineered plague and ending with the world suffering through a barely functional “biological twilight.”    There is no happy ending.“Very much like nuclear war, there is no real homeland defense against a large-scale biological attack, only things you can do to mitigate extermination,” retired Air Force colonel Dr.Thomas Ehrhard says in the book.Not only is there no defense, but Jacobsen makes it clear that there would be no recovery.“You do not choose plague as a battlefield weapon,” says British former intelligence officer Dr.

Christopher Davis in the book.“You choose plague because you’re go...