Things to read when life gets too boring

[Monty/Judith Herr]

But, anthrax cannot be effectively distributed by air.

Judith M. Herr
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One of many things you can learn from this collection of links

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/bioterrorism/

"...The prospect of an anthrax attack was investigated in the 1990s by the
US Office of Technological Assessment. They concluded that 100 kilograms of
virulent anthrax effectively dispersed at night over Washington DC could
cause between one and three million deaths. Crop-dusters can carry up to
twice that capacity..."





Bottom line: The best protection from determined terrorists over the long
run
is prevention; is to reduce the motivation to conduct terrorism. It is in
the
nature of complex and advanced societies to create so many points of
potential
vulnerability by well-organized terrorist groups that they cannot all be
guarded
effectively, no matter how many security precautions are taken. -- Roger