Russian defectors told how Moscow had built secret factories to annually make up to 100 tons of the virus for weapons.
Without any other options, the Marines destroy the infestation and all other life forms on the planet with virus bombs biological weapons of mass destruction.
Vector once specialized in turning viruses into weapons.
Another project will provide $600,000 to the Vector lab in Novosibirsk, Russia, which once specialized in turning smallpox and other viruses into weapons of war.
The first of his four novels, "Softwar," published in 1984, described a subterranean war between the United States and the Soviet Union, a story some have interpreted as prefiguring the deployment of software viruses as weapons of conflict.
They want key papers redacted, with all information removed that might conceivably enable someone to use viruses as weapons.
SARS likely spread from masked palm civets, but nobody knows how the virus honed its weapons for attacking humans.
Evolution is a virus's secret weapon.
But some scientists are turning the virus's secret weapon against it.
Israel ended vaccinations partly to dispel the perception that it had turned the virus into a weapon, as had the former Soviet Union.
