220 pounds of anthrax spores released from a crop-duster over Washington D.C., on a calm clear night - could kill one million to three million people in the metropolitan area, according to the US Office of Technology Assessment. William Patrick, who served as a UN Inspector in Iraq, believes the scenario could take only 100 pounds of the agent.The main detail now is to make just work on the honkies.
At 6:17 AM +1100 on 12/2/01, mattd wrote:
US Office of Technology Assessment
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