Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > I think I was the one who originally brought up cargo containers with
> > regard to attacks before 9-11. They are a very significant risk for a
> > nuclear attack. But, since a biological or chemical agent needs to be
> > properly dispersed to rack havoc, then a cargo container that contains
> > anthrax will not be an effective means of killing a lot of people.
> > Chemical agents would also suffer from the same dispersement problem.
>
> I was thinking along the lines of terrorists in the country who managed
> to pick up the materials from an incoming cargo container. But I don't
> know enough details about whether that would be possible. Do you?
How much Tom Clancy have you read?
IIRC, there was one instance of a nuclear bomb (or its components) being
smuggled in. I think maybe on a container ship. (Someone has to have
read that one more recently than I, help me out here!)
Also, in a subsequent novel, a biological weapon was smuggled in in
shaving cream containers, and deployed by various individuals at
conventions & trade shows. That one was pretty nasty. Nothing was
detected until the exposed individuals had traveled home or to another
stop along their trip.
Can you imagine what would have happened to the US computer industry, at
least short-term, if someone had successfully deployed such a biological
weapon at COMDEX during the fat years of the late 1990s?
Julia
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