At 16:27 20-7-01 -0500, 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.
Then wouldn't biological weapons be more humane (or rather: less in-humane)
than conventional bombs?
Suppose you can develop a biological weapon that when dropped on enemy
troops would cause, say, massive diarrhea. It wouldn't kill anyone (or
hardly anyone), but it would nevertheless disable those troops, giving you
the chance to overtake them, put them in a POW camp and send them home to
their loved ones after the war.
Just a thought.
Jeroen
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