Comment Irony? (Score 1) 248
Viktor Zhdanov, the man who first proposed a global eradication campaign to the WHO in 1958, then, ironically, became the first chairman of the Soviet council that oversaw the secret biowarfare program beginning in the 1970s.
Irony? Or extremely long term planning? (If not by him, then by the government that employed him)
After all, without Zhdanov's earlier work eliminating the need for mass vaccination, his work developing ICBM-delivered smallpox would have been futile.
