Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be unserious. As the Chinese military fundamentally rethinks biological warfare and Russia continues to use chloropicrin in Ukraine, hypothetical scenarios of AI-enabled bioweapons dominate the headlines. If national security leaders and unconventional weapons experts continue to prioritize latent potentialities of emerging technology over current trends,
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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: War on the Rocks
Category: News
Topics: Regulation · Military & security · Biotech
Retrieved: 4 August 2026
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ethics.ai (3 August 2026), “Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy,” evidence record 16026, https://ethics.ai/record/16026 (originally published by War on the Rocks).
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