Having some training in the U.S. Army's Nuclear, Chemical, Biological program, I'm passingly familiar with the capability of those weapons. Having studied biology, I have a better understanding of the "bugs" part of "nukes, gas, and bugs" than I am sometimes comfortable with. Of the three, it has always been bugs that scare me the most: They can be deployed surreptitiously, they can spread through much of the population before anyone knows there's a problem, and they reproduce and spread on their own.
So, when I hear of a biosafety breach at a national lab that houses some of the deadliest, most weaponizable pathogens in existence, I tend to find that a little disconcerting.
BREAKING:
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) January 20, 2026
White Coat Waste just uncovered a massive “biosafety breach” at “one of the most dangerous biolabs in the country.”
2 months ago, NIH quietly admitted that a deadly pathogen was “released, lost, or stolen” from its Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana.
We noticed.
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There's a lot behind that X post, but here are the high points.
White Coat Waste just uncovered a massive “biosafety breach” at “one of the most dangerous biolabs in the country.”
2 months ago, NIH quietly admitted that a deadly pathogen was “released, lost, or stolen” from its Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana.
In case you're wondering, "biosafety breach" means some nasty bugs got out. The really unsettling part is that they don't know if they were released, lost, or stolen. They don't know.
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Consider the implications of that. Released or lost is bad. But the mere possibility of theft is far worse; that implies that it was deliberate, that someone plans to use these for some purpose that we could only describe as horrible.
Here's more from White Coat Waste:
White Coat Waste’s @JustinRGoodman just broke down this shocking news with @BreannaMorello:
“Rocky Mountain Lab is where ticks were weaponized with NIH and DoD to spread Lyme and other diseases back in the ‘50s and ‘60s."
"More recently, White Coat Waste exposed how a couple years prior to the pandemic, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was cloning coronaviruses that Peter Daszak and the Wuhan lab were finding out in bat caves.”
“These are the same viruses that the Wuhan lab was doing gain-of-function with.”
Coronaviruses are good candidates for weaponizing. They are a big family; about 20 percent of the pathogens that cause what we call the common cold are coronaviruses, while most of the other 80 percent are rhinoviruses. Rocky Mountain Lab has also dabbled in things like anthrax, ebola and ricin, if memory serves. These are some of the deadliest pathogens in the world, and now some have been lost or released - or stolen. There's nothing good that can come of that.
I've been saying, and writing, for years now, that the first world was the war of chemists, the second world war was the war of physicists, but the third world war will be the war of biologists, and more than any other weapon, it has the most chance of making sure there won't be a fourth world war - because there will be nobody around to fight it.
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