You've got charismatic power in spades, but are tight on cash and badly in need of an arsenal. Don't even try, said Paul Jackson, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory overseeing the lab's bioweapons project.
Nuclear weapons are too expensive.
But that's no problem. Mother Nature has already perfected dozens of ways to wipe out human beings. Jackson and his team of scientists in the lab's Biosciences Division play a unique role in tracking biological weapons around the world. They're in charge of mapping the genes of a spate of possible weapon-ready microbes. First on the list is Bacillus anthracis, the common soil spore that causes the disease anthrax.