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Tomorrow Minister Folke Hägg was the first to propose building upon previous efforts at biological warfare to that end. Both Hägg and the eugenicists at the Tomorrow Ministry theorized that infectious strains capable of inflict damage on a civilizational scale could and would be developed in the near future by various nation states. This would, in essence, create a scenario of mutually assured destruction. While the Tomorrow Ministry's estimations were wildly incorrect, they did lead to the creation of a biological warfare section under the Special Materials Division which spearheaded far more legitimate and scientifically founded research into the topic. The isolated and uninhabited island of Narsi in Tynam was used as a secretive testing and storage site throughout the early 20th century.
The program soon began to face resistance from within the Special Materials Division itself, which reported that the weapons being developed were "Unlikely to offer any military value outside the realm of terror or desperation." Nonetheless, the powerful political support of the Tomorrow Ministry ensured that the program would continue to grow and develop until the White November Crisis of 1957. After the downfall of the Ministry, the Cryrian Government began to gradually shut the program down until it had been entirely dismantled in 1960.
The CDF disclosed a sizable stockpile of weaponized biological agents ranging from anthrax, plague, tularemia, glanders, brucellosis, Q-fever, botulinum, and orthopoxviruses such as smallpox.
==Major Installations==
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