Biological/Chemical Warfare

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Question:

I have heard so much about biological and chemical attacks on the U.S. of late and was wondering if someone could please paste some URL's? I can only imagine that Jan. 1st would be an ideal time to attack the U.S. have only hear rumors.

-- Andy Brown (andypbrown@hotmail.com), December 15, 1999

Answers

http://www.drudgereport.com/

bottom left has links to major sources worldnetdaily breaks down alot of the international stuff well

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 15, 1999.


Chemical attacks possible

Biological attacks, forget it. Germs are little living organisms that fly no flag. Like everything else, they just want to live and reproduce. They know no borders and carry no passports. If someone was insane enough to dump anthrax, plauge or ebola on Times Square, New years eve, it would be back in the country of origin before the first person died in New York. Even with Y2K flight restrictions in place, it is less than 24 hours from New York to any place on earth and most diseases have an incubation period longer than that.

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), December 15, 1999.


Which is PRECISELY why they would use someplace like Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, etc.

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), December 15, 1999.


Anthrax is not easly spread from person to person. That's why it is useful as a biological agent. I read a report a few months ago that N. Korea was vaccinating its soldiers against smallpox. Captured infiltraters had recently been given the vaccine. I wonder why they would be vaccinating their people against smallpox.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), December 15, 1999.

A few months (2 give or take) had the Story in the Air Force Times that all U.S. personnel, be they dependant or Military were issued Chem/Bio Protective gear. Family members were given basic instruction on the proper wear and use of the gear in the "unlikely" event of a North Korean Attack. The Children under I believe it was three were given a 'whole head' covering, (as a promask won't fit) and families with infants were issued NBC "casualty pods", sort of a self contained bubble to strap the youngins' in. Wives and spouses were issue new M-17A2s, while the Servicemen(women) were issue the latest M-24/40/42 serise masks. This was confirmed by the D.O.D., and was on a link (now, of course disabled). I've also confirmed it with two Independant sources, One actually stationed in Korea, the other a Chemical Corp Captain in USAMIIRID In Maryland. I guess they're expecting the North to get squirrelly over the rollover...

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan101st@aol.com), December 15, 1999.


If that's squirelly I would hate to see hostile.

-- Squid (ItsDark@down.here), December 15, 1999.

Check out these 2 awesome sites that deal with NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical warfare and protection)

www.medicalcorps.org www.JadeEdwards.com

-- Slick Willie Jr. (slickster@whitehouse.com), December 15, 1999.


"Biological attacks, forget it. Germs are little living organisms that fly no flag. Like everything else, they just want to live and reproduce. They know no borders and carry no passports. If someone was insane enough to dump anthrax, plauge or ebola on Times Square, New years eve, it would be back in the country of origin before the first person died in New York." ----------------------------------------------------------------------

I hate to burst your bubble, but a lot of "someones" were insane enough to invent them, insane enough to design selivery systems for them, insane enough to produce large stockpiles of them, and insane enough to use them in war. There is no such thing as a weapon that cannot be turned against it's creator. You could be beaten to death with your own hand. Since man first had the wonderful idea of killing his fellow man, he has been designing weapons that could be and were used against him. In the 60's or 70's, the US designed a NUCLEAR MORTER. It's maximum range was less than the blast radius of the warhead. The only thing more stupid than that would be a nuclear hand- grenade. (There is probably a proto-type somewhere).

"Insane" is the one word that can routinely be used to describe humans.

-- MegaMe (CWHale67@aol.com), December 15, 1999.


MEGA-ME,

I can think of two other good examples of weapons insanity. There was the submarine fired, nuclear armed torpedo that had to be fired at a range inside the "blast lethal to submarines" distance.

Then there was all the training I had which emphasized which critcal part of my plane was likely to melt first from the weapon I was to deliver. Hint: if you've delivered the weapon properly, the trailing edges of the tail surfaces. And you had to do things just right to be "surfing away" from the detonation on the explosion's blast wave.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), December 15, 1999.


Wild weasel,

Is that the manuever where you sling the bomb as high as you can and then boogie on afterburners?

I used to be one of the trackers that checked if you were far enough away when it went off.

I don't remember anyone making it....but that's not what we told you.

-- (Radarman)LM (latemarch@usa.net), December 15, 1999.



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