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Skriven 2008-11-01 07:35:10 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 22984 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Loyalties
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Ward Dossche wrote to Robert Bashe on Friday October 31 2008 at 16:16:

RB>> - Where do you get the blueprint? One detailed enough to actually
RB>> build a nuclear device?

WD> Isn't there one in the "Anarchist Cookbook" ?

No idea, as I've never seen it. But even if so, you then come up with the
second sentence above ("detailed enough to actually build"), and then, of
course, you have to run to the local drugstore to buy enough plutonium or U235
to actually make it. All in all quite a hassle.

Chemical and biological weapons are easier to make and unfortunately can cause
at least as much damage. Remember the hue and cry with a few anthrax spores?
That was only a minor scratch at the surface of what could have happened, and
it near-paralyzed Washington for quite a while. And to this day the culprit
remains unknown. Now just imagine something like this nationwide, on a massive
scale. Something like that scares me more than the possibility of some
terrorist group building an atomic bomb.

Oh yes, and then there was the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway - also a mere
pinprick by a few crazies with a couple of chemists among them. But quite a
number of people were injured and died, and the affair crippled transportation
in Tokyo for at least a day. Small cause, large effect.

Cheers, Bob

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