On 20 Jul 2001, at 16:27, Dan Minette wrote:
> What I read was not that it would get away and travel around the world
> to kill one's own population, but that even conventional bombing would
> do a much better job of killing people in a city than biological
> weapons. IIRC, most diseases cannot simply be spread by dispersing
> them in the air over the city. If a disease is airborn, then one
> needs to understand why it hasn't spread already.
>
> I recall that Japanese cult that tried to kill a number of people and
> ended up only making a few sick. At the time, I recall people
> commenting on how much harder these weapons were to use than other
> weapons.
AHH! Not it's clear! That was Chemical, not biological weapons.
And yes, chemical weapons have the limits you
mentioned..biological ones do NOT. A spoonful of Anthrax in the
water supply can kill a city. Literally.
Andy
Dawn Falcon
