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To: Lane3 who wrote (6805)	7/16/2003 8:58:38 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 7720

I just can't get exercised over smallpox or saran gas like I can over nukes. You can't kill more people with them than you can with plain old big bombs. Huh? Biological weapons are far scarier to me than nuclear weapons. Much, much easier to make and use and can be far more deadly. The Spanish flu killed more people than would have been conceivable with a few nuclear weapons, which is generally all that we can expect terrorists or Saddam to have at most. HIV/AIDS has killed how many worldwide? Look at what a few letters infected with anthrax by a single peson apparently working alone produced. Look at SARS. That was a relatively benign virus. What wold be the effect of infecting the D.C. water system with a virulent chemical or biological contaminant? By the time it was identified, how many would be dead? IMO we should be far more worried about biological and chemical agents than nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists.

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