Russia’s Plague Mystery and the Coming Age of Bioweapons

Jha believes AI-enabled bioweapons deployment against a human population within five years is highly likely, while US preparedness funding has stalled.

• Siberia death unexplained: A 28-year-old lab worker at Russia's anti-plague network died of pneumonia; Jha calls the official denial-plus-quarantine response "not super reassuring," given the lab's history of biological-agent work.
• History repeats, Jha argues: Chemical engineering (1900s) led to WWI gas weapons; physics (1930s) led to the atomic bomb; biology's engineering breakthroughs (CRISPR, mRNA, last 10-15 years) could similarly lead to bioweapons use within years, not decades.

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