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Dark Winter, June 2001: Those Who Rehearsed the Smallpox Built the Apparatus After

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Corona Accountability Structural Analysis Pandemic Politics Dark Winter Tabletop Exercise Bioterror Smallpox Johns Hopkins CSIS ANSER OToole Inglesby Hamburg Judith Miller Iraq War Project BioShield Accountability
From 22 to 23 June 2001 — three months before 9/11, five months before the anthrax letters — thirteen former senior US officials sat at an oval table in a briefing room at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington and played thirteen days of a smallpox outbreak in thirteen hours. The exercise was called Dark Winter.