8 Dark Winter (2001 - The Dark Winter exercise portrayed a FICTIONAL scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens.) (webarchive.loc.gov) posted 3 years ago by Nex3 3 years ago by Nex3 +9 / -1 6 comments share 6 comments share save hide report block hide replies
A short google lead me to the answer that it was because of irak war. They saw an attack with smallpox as a posibility.
You had to fight in the irak war?
No, I was stateside in the Coast Guard stopping foreign vessels from fishing in our waters at that time. Well, it would have spread I suppose.
Thanks for the research!