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Great article! Another possible case study: The apollo mission IIRC had a bio-quarantine procedure for the astronauts, in case they had contracted some sort of contagious moon disease. I don't know much about the story and am unsure why they took this concern seriously, but they seem to have.
Another possible case study would be scientists and engineers and military types building the nuclear arsenals and MAD systems and so forth being concerned that global nuclear war could be triggered by accident (or on purpose for that matter).
And then there's some stuff in synthetic bio...