We need to keep in mind (and tell others) that chem/bio agents are NOT

[mike1963]

Weapons of 'mass destruction.'

Only nukes are actually WMDs. Yes, it's possible under ideal conditions to kill a fair number of people with stuff like Sarin, Anthrax, Ricin, smallpox, etc. but it's a damn hard thing to do efficiently.

[Fescue4u]

1. I disagree

Its also damn difficult to get fissonable material and get the geometry right for critical mass.

In fact, Id say that if a terorist was starting from scratch, he would have an easier time kill a mass number with Anthrax or ricin.

Hell, a terrorist with supply of ricin and a weekend visit grocery stores could kill thousands and terrorize millions...and Ricin is not that difficult to make.

Besides, dead is dead, doesnt matter what we can the weapon.

[Toots]

2. I agree with you on the chemical stuff but biological can be

devastating. We don't know what new strains of disease may develop. Small pox during the 1700s killed millions of people around the world. It wiped out complete peoples. Granted it didn't destroy a single building so I guess the mass destruction part isn't apt but the death toll by far exceeded any nuclear event to date.