http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/deadlygas0210.html Tiny Amounts Can Kill Thousands The Invisible Weapons By E.J. Gong Jr. ABCNEWS.com Thanks to Saddam Hussein, biological and chemical weapons continue to make headlines. Heres a look at five of the most insidious ones, which the United Nations says Iraq has been stockpiling. The idea of killing enemies with germs isnt new. In 1346, the Tartars used crude catapults to launch plague-infested corpses into the Crimean city of Kaffa, in southwest Ukraine. Today, scientists here and abroad tinker with some of the most deadly ingredients known to man. Biological weapons, in particular, are easy and quick to make. A single disease-producing bacterium can divide every 20 minutes. An aspirin bottle of bacteria could yield a huge arsenal in just a week. Chemical weapons take longer to produce, but kill much faster. A single drop of sarin and VX, for instance, can kill in minutes. [tables, reference the ABC site for them]
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