Erik Reuter wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > I think I was the one who originally brought up cargo containers with > > regard to attacks before 9-11. They are a very significant risk for a > > nuclear attack. But, since a biological or chemical agent needs to be > > properly dispersed to rack havoc, then a cargo container that contains > > anthrax will not be an effective means of killing a lot of people. > > Chemical agents would also suffer from the same dispersement problem. > > I was thinking along the lines of terrorists in the country who managed > to pick up the materials from an incoming cargo container. But I don't > know enough details about whether that would be possible. Do you?
How much Tom Clancy have you read?
IIRC, there was one instance of a nuclear bomb (or its components) being smuggled in. I think maybe on a container ship. (Someone has to have read that one more recently than I, help me out here!)
Also, in a subsequent novel, a biological weapon was smuggled in in shaving cream containers, and deployed by various individuals at conventions & trade shows. That one was pretty nasty. Nothing was detected until the exposed individuals had traveled home or to another stop along their trip.
Can you imagine what would have happened to the US computer industry, at least short-term, if someone had successfully deployed such a biological weapon at COMDEX during the fat years of the late 1990s?
Julia
The porn and snack food industries would be bankrupt? <joking>
I don't remember how Clancy's nuke got into the country. I think it was the same way as the movie, disguised as a freezer or some other common heavy box and shipped in. Then delivered in a plain box truck outside a domed stadium hosting the super bowl in Denver. The bio attack was shaving cream. I think only six or eight foreign agents had canisters. Also the evil doctor's were trying for a very spreadable form of Ebola, they thought they had it but their tests were not strictly controlled, so the ebola was still being passed by contact, not by someone sneezing.
Kevin T. - VRWC
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