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to: Adam Flinton
from: Geo.
date: 2002-12-28 22:45:38
subject: Re: And now for something completely different

From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Nope MAD is not about 2 or 3 nukes. It's about blanketing your enemy (& he
> blanketing you) with hydrogen bombs. MAD with bio agents requires either
> many many more missiles than H-bombs require or a transmissible/infectious
> pathogen. If the latter then chaos theory comes into play & once released
> you & yours are just as vulnerable as the enemy.
>
>  5 Gal of anthrax is probably less than was on Gruinard.

I don't think we are communicating. I was saying 5gal of anthrax powder
would contaminate perhaps a large area of land but not the whole planet. It
would be like very limited nuclear war not like MAD. MAD is like the
example of a virus that you were talking about.

Geo.

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