Comment Re:The problem is... (Score 1) 190
Smallpox is not a MAD weapon like nuclear weapons, that analogy does not work.
Someone launches smallpox at you, what are you going to do, launch some kind of herpes at them?
No, that's not the point. Having a live virus for developing vaccines and antivirals are where the usefulness is.
It is very much like the anti-missile component of MAD, which neither side wanted the other to have.