The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call in terms of the security, economic and public health devastation infectious diseases can cause.
In addition to the mass death and global disruption caused by the virus, and the indirect security consequences of those dynamics, there have also been direct consequences for security, including the sidelining of aircraft carriers, infection of heads of state and the quarantining of military leaders central to chains of command. For those tasked with addressing biological weapons threats, these effects continue to raise questions of whether some actors could be more likely to consider deliberately weaponizing diseases.
The US must separate nuclear deterrence from biological weapons (defensenews.com)
