Thanks for helping to supply information to the troops. Eric At 09:33 AM 98 02 11 -0800, you wrote: >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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