Quoting Douglas Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was just watching the meeting, and they were discussing the reasons > why and why not go into Iraq and force a ragime change. The weapons > inspectors were saying that if just one person came into the U.S > after being infected with weapons grade small pox, that he would > infect 10 people and within 7-14 days, > those 10 people would infect 10 people each and so on. So within 2 > months of coming here, there would be over 1,000,000,000 infected > people with small pox.
Presuming the epidemic goes unnoticed and people don't take counter measures. > If they were to release it in a ventilation system in a building > with say 2000 people, those people would infect 2,000,000,000 within 2 > weeks time. Small pox infections go through bodily fluid contacts I think (including coughing, sneezing etc). So protection is relatively easy. I would be looking for something with a few more vectors, possibly something where animals can be carriers as well, or something that lives forever (like anthrax). In this scenario using something that wears off quickly is not necessary because occupation of US territory is not an issue. > Something to think about eh? <shrug> Second year chemistry class here came with warnings that if you did something stupid, you would be producing nerve gas. I know several people that made TNT just for the heck of it. It is pretty easy to take down a significant part of the power grid by just driving a truck into the poles of an electricity line. Buy a gun, put on a white pointy hat and start shooting at a school playground with mostly black children. Repeat 3 times and watch an entire city go up in race riots. Load a truck with fertilizer, drive into a tunnel and press the red button. Load a speedboat with explosives and some mercury switches and steer it into the side of an LNG tanker. All of these are much easier to organize as the use of biological agents. Do all of these together, and the US has other things on its mind as invading Iraq or not. The potential for destruction and terrorism is still going up, despite the warnings. The world aint seen nothing yet. Jochem -- Never trust a top poster. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
