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"Genetic weapons?" Ziqi felt a little amused after hearing this. "Isn't that the plot in there?"

"It's hard to say." Fan Wuxian shook his head and said.

There are still some differences between genetic weapons and traditional bacteriological weapons or virus weapons, mainly because the technology used has completely changed.

From the beginning of the twentieth century, shortly after the birth of the germ theory, people began to experiment with bacteriological warfare, and began to conduct bacteriological warfare in World War II. Soon after the nuclear fission was confirmed, it was used in nuclear weapons experiments, and in 1945 the world's first bomb was exploded, after which Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan became the only two cities in human history to have been subjected to a nuclear attack. The discovery of the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) marked the pinnacle of modern science.

With the continuous application of genetic engineering technology in the military field, some countries have ignored the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons and carried out research on infectious diseases and microorganisms in the name of researching vaccines.

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 since acceded to the Convention. From 1960 to the present, there have been 121 documented incidents of bioterrorism in the world, of which 66 were cases of direct premeditated murder using biological genes.

Genetic weapons, on the other hand, are aimed at specific races, studying the genetic characteristics of different races and populations, and cloning a certain bacteria or virus. Cause the demise of a particular race or group of people. It uses genetic engineering techniques, particularly recombinant DNA technology, to alter the genetic material of non-pathogenic microorganisms.

A DNA molecule contains multiple genes, and after studying the DNA and genetic code of a specific ethnic population, it finds a certain antigen in a specific ethnic population, destroys it, and creates a blood disease that may go undetected for many years, which affects the birth rate and infant survival rate of a certain race, or increases the prevalence of a race, until it reduces the population of an entire race.

Genetic weapons can be cast by artificial, regular artillery, warships, aircraft, missiles, or balloons. Because bacteria can multiply and spread naturally under suitable conditions, genetically modified bacteria or microorganisms can be placed on the enemy's front line, rear, rivers and lakes, cities and transportation fortresses to achieve the effect of killing people without knives.

"Because of the genetic makeup of different races and populations, they are susceptible to certain diseases. Changing genes can control the functional structure of biological traits, and according to the needs of warfare, genes can be arbitrarily recombined, genes that can resist ordinary vaccines or drugs can be inserted into some pathogenic bacteria or viruses to produce pathogenic bacteria with significant drug resistance, or pathogenic genes can be inserted into some microorganisms that would not otherwise cause disease, and new biological agents can be created to be infectious in attacking the same species with specific hereditary characteristics. Even if it is discovered, it is difficult to treat because outsiders cannot decipher the genetic code of the disease-causing bacteria. It can also be transferred to some bacteria with genes that damage human intelligence, and when a certain race of people is infected with this fine line, they will lose their normal intelligence. At present, there are more than 70 kinds of biological agents in the world, and no country can guarantee their non-proliferation and loss. Shen Manhua introduced to Ziqi, "Genetic weapons have the characteristics of threat, suddenness, concealment, diversity, ease of use, and low cost. Eighties. Scientists in the former Soviet Union have developed an incurable variant of bubonic plague virus. The United States has also used the biocatalytic effect of DNA in cells to isolate the DNA of one virus, and then combine it with the DNA of another virus to splice it into a highly toxic heat toxin, 20 grams of heat toxin can kill six billion people in the world in a single moment, and its power is dozens of times greater than that of a nuclear bomb. ”

In order to paralyze the economy of a certain country, terrorists can isolate specific toxins to kill crops or poultry, and if the infection of biological bacteria and viruses occurs in densely populated large cities, in addition to causing poisoning and injury to people, livestock and crops, it will also cause long-term psychological trauma to people and cause mental fear on a large scale of society. Genetic weapons attacks in cities are far more devastating than chemical or nuclear explosions. For example, in the skies over Washington, 100 kilograms of anthrax powder can kill between a million and three million people.

Genetic weapons can attack people, animals, plants and crops, food, water, buildings, and other targets. Biological bacteria can be sprayed on a large scale by aircraft or discarded and ready for use. The ways in which the attacked person is infected with the virus are also diverse, and in the infected population, different generations of infected people coexist.

Due to the long incubation period of biological bacteria and viruses, the clinical symptoms of each person are different. It can be extremely difficult to diagnose and treat. Genetic terror attacks do not require complex professional packaging and related equipment and devices, and can be freeze-dried or made into capsules, or placed in bottles and carried around. Moreover, because of the infection of biological bacteria and viruses, there was no attack at that time, and it was very easy for terrorists to evacuate.

Because the attack of genetic weapons does not require many material preparations in advance, is irrelevant in time and space, and often catches people off guard, genetic weapons can change the nature and mode of warfare in the post-information age, and have a strong psychological deterrent effect on the enemy.

Biological bacterial agents can cause large-scale primary infection areas and secondary or more reinfection areas, and bacterial infection areas are very easy to spread, and the implementation of blockade of infected areas requires the cooperation of the whole society, and its workload is far from the imagination of ordinary people.

If one-tenth of the area and people in an area are infected with biological bacteria and viruses, the consequences will be unimaginable. Even if the health and medical conditions and facilities in this region are advanced and sufficient, the capacity for treatment, treatment and medical treatment will be completely lost, and the handling of infected objects and infected and dead people will be a worldwide problem, and it will inevitably cause worldwide fear.

"It's horrible!" Ziqi felt a little chilly when she heard this, and shrank beside Fan Wuxian and said.

"Actually, there's no need to worry too much-" Fan Wuxi patted Ziqi's little head and said to her with a smile, "Although genetic weapons are indeed very powerful, unless everyone can't live anymore and wants to die together, no one dares to release this monster, after all, this is uncontrollable, unless modern technology has been able to accurately grasp the most critical genetic technology, and can modify it as they like." ”

What Fan Wuxian said is indeed the truth, so far. Human beings are still in a situation of blind people touching elephants, and many key problems are still confused, just like a problem of a neural source system, which is difficult to solve, not to mention how complex the exploration of the brain is, and as for the exploration of genes, it is even more complicated, even if it can affect the shape of some gene segments, it may not necessarily guarantee that the finished product manufactured by this means will be able to act according to its own design intentions.

"Do you have research on this as well?" Ziqi suddenly asked a very sensitive question.

Fan Wuxi immediately denied it, "How is it possible? ”

However, looking at Ziqi's face of disbelief, he whispered, "Of course, for the genetic defects of some colored or colorless people, we are also studying some means that can be improved, this genetic weapon is completely untouched, we are for a very pure scientific research purpose, we want to find out the means to completely solve the problem of birth, old age, sickness and death through the study of human genes, our purpose is noble, and those crazy terrorists are not the same." ”

Ziqi thought to herself, since they can find out the genetic defects, then filling the defects or effectively attacking the defects is just a thought of the operator. Almost all research institutes are touting their own justice, but it is difficult to say what exactly they are actually doing.

In recent years, great progress has been made in the international research on human genome sequencing, and genetic engineering technology and biotechnology can become the technology for creating new bacteria and new virus genes that invade plants, animals, and humans, and the production and application of genes will develop into a brand-new gene industry.

Every leap forward in new drugs and vaccines opens the way to the creation of deadly germs, and use in genetic weapons is the ultimate goal. Gene therapy can redirect viruses to destroy the body's immunity and disrupt the body's healing process. Genetic weapon manufacturers can use genetic technology to synthesize genes, microbes, and diseases. Synthetic influenza attacks can cause symptoms that are indistinguishable from natural influenza, and people are not the only targets of bacteriological strikes by terrorists, as can crops and poultry. Crops and poultry have a much longer recovery period than a human healing period.

Human genomics is based on the genome to explore the relationship between the genome and human body functions and diseases. It aims to discover new disease-related genes, and then complete disease-related gene diagnosis and gene therapy, so as to open up new diagnostic methods, treatment pathways, drugs and tools with application value. In three years' time, the task of sequencing the human genome and the mapping of the genome will be completed, and because the genes of different races are different, this will provide the technical possibilities for the makers of genetic weapons, and the arsenal of genetic technology will be the most difficult to detect.

Scientists have now mapped the genes of six dangerous bacteria, including tuberculosis, cholera, anthrax and plague, and terrorists can find their DNA sequencing maps on any website.

For example, if the genetic sequencing of the "Spanish flu" virus, which was prevalent in 1918, is completed, then terrorists can use the genetic sequencing of this virus to artificially synthesize and update the lethal influenza virus, which may cause worse consequences than anthrax bacteria and smallpox. In 1918, an outbreak of the Spanish flu virus in Europe spread to many parts of the world, killing 40 million people.

"Since the nineties, 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 Centre for Chemical and Biological Proofreading have used genetic technology to study genetically modified super viruses, and Israeli scientists have discovered the genetic makeup of Arabs, especially Iraqis, using the results of South Africa's chromosomal weapons, and are stepping up the development of a genetic weapon specifically against Arabs. The use of genetic engineering to develop combinant strains of traditional toxins such as anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, plague and botulinum toxin, which pose a greater threat, can replicate the genes of toxic organisms in benign organisms, and enhance the combat capability of domestic soldiers through drug induction and other means of control. Fan Wuxian said casually, "As for Russia, it has long been studying the splicing of highly toxic cobra toxin genes and influenza virus genes, trying to breed a new influenza virus with cobra toxin, which can make people have flu symptoms, make some people have snake venom poisoning symptoms, and cause patients to be paralyzed and die." Germany is also secretly developing genetic weapons that can deal with antibiotics, including E. coli, cholera, and genetic modification of the original body of deadly viruses such as the Black Death. All in all, this seemingly peaceful world is actually full of too many unstable factors. ”

In fact, with the increasing maturity of gene transfer technology, it can be easily demarcated and obtained anywhere in the world. Humanity may face a new round of global genetic weapons competition.

The U.S. Defense Science Council's Technical Committee on Biological Defense argues that human genomics has made genetic weapons a new weapon of war capable of destroying urban populations. American politicians have also warned that humanity has reached the last edge of its own destiny once it has a genetic sequencing map that can redesign itself.

Three years later, the drawing of the human genetic sequencing map will be successful, and at the same time, it will also open the door for the development of genetic weapons, and the survival of human beings will face a huge threat, and how to face the threat and challenge of genetic weapons has become a new topic in the field of defense and military medical research in the world.

However, Fan Wuxian remembered a very important question at this time, it seems that three years later, there was a famous "**" incident in China, and all the people who were attacked by the virus were of Asian descent.

After thinking of this problem, he himself felt a little vigilant, not to mention the intention of harming others, but the heart of letting people go could not be relaxed for a moment.

For Americans or Japanese, Fan Wuxian has always been uneasy.

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