You don't "easily make nukes". They require an incredibly large industrial infrastructure to support them.
And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. (Again, not touching the fact that a BSL4 lab specializing in weaponized agents is not something that just escapes notice). And I'm terribly sorry, but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.
I didn't say anyone can, I said the US can. Even if the US "demilitarized", we could definitely still easily make nukes.
> And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army.
I never said standing army, I was clear about using demilitarized/militarized. You could use cyber security as another example – a country with a standing army is of course not going to help against a cyber offensive. However a country with cyber defenses...
> but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.
The US vaccinates its population against the flu every year.
And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. (Again, not touching the fact that a BSL4 lab specializing in weaponized agents is not something that just escapes notice). And I'm terribly sorry, but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.