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To: John H K
...the effectiveness of chemical weapons are WILDLY overrated in general...

In general, I agree.

You'd be lucky to kill a few hundred people with one chemical warhead. Physically impossible to kill 300,000 people with one chemical warhead.

Now, I have to disagree, unless we are narrowly defining "warhead". The typical artillery shell or air-to-ground/surface-to-surface missile "warhead" IS too small in capacity to kill 300K people.

There are many types/strengths/dispersal methods of chem weapons. I could easily imagine a 20 gallon tank of some form of persistant nerve agent, sprayed out of a garden sprayer from a helicopter (or from a rooftop on a windy day) across wide swaths of NYC. I'm thinking 300K is a conservative death toll - and 3 million is not out of the question.

30 posted on 04/25/2004 8:30:41 PM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1; John H K
Not to mention who is limiting them to using one warhead in one attack?
38 posted on 04/25/2004 8:37:13 PM PDT by fiftymegaton
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