The dangers of modern biological weapons

The article analyzes the most general issues of modern biological weapons from publicly available sources with an emphasis on their dangers. The relevance of the chosen topic is explained by the combined special danger of this type of weapons. The authors of the work, for obvious reasons, without conducting an assessment and without giving forecasts of the development of the military-political and strategic situation, without discussing any issues regarding planning, as well as the implementation of civil and territorial defense measures, come to the conclusion that it is possible to state with a certain degree of con dence that biological weapons potentially pose a threat to our country, a threat to Russia’s national security. This, of course, requires the development and adoption of appropriate measures.