From: "Adam Flinton" 

Bio weapons don't travel all that far unless the wielder is suicidal &
wants to kill all his own people as well. e.g. Anthrax never went from the
letters into the general population. i.e. unless you actually breathed the
powder...no anthrax.

Heck there was a Scottish island which was doused with anthrax & which
they left for years before doing a clean up (& they did clean it up)
& no one got infected.

Adam
"Geo."  wrote in message news:3e0bb51a{at}w3.nls.net...
lucyandi{at}spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:MPG.18756d24d7f0439d98b1d6{at}news.barkto.com...
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> > > How much of the building it contaminated doesn't really matter, they
> shut
> > > down the whole building didn't they? Isn't that just as good?
> >
> > If it's for strategic reasons, I would think not.
>
> With anthrax type weapons, fear is a big part of it. Just a little bit of
> fear of the unknown and it's really hard to get people to work in the
> environment without taking massive precautions. Heck, it's the basis of
> terrorism.
>
>
> > Think of it this way -- a ground-exploded uranium bomb would contaminate
a
> very
> > small portion of the Iraqi oil fields. Let's say 50-60 square miles. Is
> that an
> > efficient use of the technology?
>
> Sounds way more efficient than wiring each well up with explosives.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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