[blincoln]

Military labs do work with bioweapons, and (unsurprisingly) they sometimes have trouble containing them just like regular labs.

E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Aral_smallpox_incident

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/archives/what-went-wrong/a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-d...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/23/army-a...

[andrewflnr]

For defensive purposes, FWIW. I suppose they might create some mirror molecules to test defenses, but I believe gus_massa's point stands that you don't need to generate full, functioning cells for that purpose.