You're playing really lose with the bio-weapons. Once they're out of the lab, you've lost control, and the millions of replications that a virus/bacteria goes through in an infection practically guarantees your designer genes will be striped out at some point. Your safeguards, too. I'd also say its more likely that they would come from the Middle East/Muslim world as the are seen by some as the poor man's nuke, but thats me.
Quarantines are a bit questionable in this day and age. An infected person can hop a plane in Bombay and be in London in not much more than a day. He's going to be exposing hundreds of people during the flight, changeovers, and what have you. Look at Spanish flu last century with Maraj, American Samoa, and New Caledonia being the only places to establish effective quarantines.
China falls behind only Luxembourg as a bad place to be in a nuclear attack. The Three Gorges Dam is a targeteer's wet dream and since they're brewing the plagues, the rules of war have probably been thrown out, so lets put a few bursts on the head waters of the Yellow River as well. The US would probably respond with nukes instead of taking the time to develop a designer disease.
The fracturing in the US is a little odd. I'd see it possibly devolving to state governments for a while but the Constitution still exists and we're all still Americans. That will count for a lot in many peoples minds. Divided we fall, united we stand and what not.
Quarantines are a bit questionable in this day and age. An infected person can hop a plane in Bombay and be in London in not much more than a day. He's going to be exposing hundreds of people during the flight, changeovers, and what have you. Look at Spanish flu last century with Maraj, American Samoa, and New Caledonia being the only places to establish effective quarantines.
China falls behind only Luxembourg as a bad place to be in a nuclear attack. The Three Gorges Dam is a targeteer's wet dream and since they're brewing the plagues, the rules of war have probably been thrown out, so lets put a few bursts on the head waters of the Yellow River as well. The US would probably respond with nukes instead of taking the time to develop a designer disease.
The fracturing in the US is a little odd. I'd see it possibly devolving to state governments for a while but the Constitution still exists and we're all still Americans. That will count for a lot in many peoples minds. Divided we fall, united we stand and what not.