Pandemic Timeline

Month: June 2001

Dark Winter exercise held at Andrews Air Force Base

In an elaborate exercise reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear annihilation film Dr. Strangelove, a consortium of non-profit institutions on June 22-23 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., hosted “Dark Winter,” in which the United States falls prey to a smallpox attack sometime during the winter of 2002. The sponsoring organizations included the Center for Strategic and…