text: Field Notes: The Nuclear Threat Initiative hosted a simulation of a monkeypox terrorist attack in which key officials from the U.S. and Chineae governments, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, UN, WHO, and Merck participated in the "table top" exercises. The live scenario was conducted in March of 2021 and the monkeypox outbreak for which it was designed to simulate, listed a simulated outbreak date of May 15 2022. ///BREAK In November 2021, Bill Gates warned the U.K.'s Health Select Committee that governments should begin preparing for a smallpox outbreak.