Maybe someone will invent a 'stupid-people' virus and do us all a favor.
-----Original Message----- From: Rhong Dhong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:J. Mueller: nuclear terrorism unlikely --- Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree whole heartedly. By far the most dangerous > would be a lethal virus, > rapidly spreading from person to person. Such a > virus could easily wipe out a > large percentage of the population I don't know how far they've gotten with 'engineered' viruses, but as a light-skinned, man, whose people are mostly light-skinned, I would be afraid some terroristic government might engineer a virus that targeted light-skinned people. Iranians are swarthy, aren't they? Look at the bee population which has been decimated. Is the virus that is destroying it something natural or engineered? If they can do it to bees, they can do it to us. Of course, the light-skinned governments may be thinking along similar lines, and we may end up with a new balance of terror, with a doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction to keep things from getting out of hand. But it would be a lot more difficult to keep the lid on such an arsenal than it is to keep nuclear weapons under guard. Depending on the advances in biology, such engineered viruses may become the poor man's atomic bomb, and one suicide 'bomber' would be all it takes to set things off. If even the possibility of an engineered virus is seen as real, then it seems inevitable that governments will work on creating such viruses, the thinking being that if we don't have the weapon, maybe the terrorist Iranians (or whoever the devil is) will have them and we will be vulnerable. If the first-world governments don't already have such viruses, I'm sure they are working on making them. And the Iranians and Israelis and Pakistanis won't be far behind. Stephen King's 'The Stand' will probably come true in the next 10 years. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
