A dispersed population makes the use of bio agents less effective.
Non-contagious bio agents and chemicals, would be very hard to disperse over wide enough areas to kill a significant number of people when those people live far apart--
Since so much of the agents would fall over uninhabited land, much would be wasted.
Great amounts of some agents might need to be dispersed over many miles to kill even a few hundred people--
Again, it would be easier for a terrorist just to use a gun.
And as for contagious bio agents--they too are most effective in densely populated areas, where they can spread among people quickly, and not burn themselves out by running out of new victims to infect.
Plus, such infections would be easy for government to contain when only a few people are infected in a small area, far from other people.
It was population growth, dense centers of population, and international travel--of trade or of armies--that gave the great plagues of history the opportunity to happen.
Son once again, Weapons of Mass Destruction are impractical without a mass of people to act upon.
Therefore, the best defense and the best deterrence is a dispersed population.
"Therefore, the best defense and the best deterrence is a dispersed population."
Huh. How 'bout instead of changing the rest of the world, we just kill the terrorists?
The 9/11 terrorists thought of using crop dusters, but that wouldn't have worked in or near a city. OTOH, it would be VERY effective in very rural areas; or don't you plan on growing your own food?
Nukes are also WMD. And even dirty bombs will kill plenty of people who live in a no man's land of your own design.
What? You think that plague and small pox have never been found in rural settings? Are you for real ?
If EVERYONE were to leave the cities and disperse, just how much open space do you think there'd be then? The government owns a lot of our open spaces, large agribusinesses ( food farming as well as lumber ) own a lot of land, and there are great swaths of uninhabitabl land. So, just WHERE is everyone going to move to and still be so far away from everyone else, that your ridiculous scenario works?
And since like Mao Tse Tong, you want to depopulate the cities and suburban areas, just were and how is there to be specialized hospitals, T.V. and radio shows, publishing houses,museums, manufacturing of things, etc.?
You really do come across as something rather like an old hippie back to nature lout/Marxist/Luddite/white supremacist combination. And like them, your views are unfeasible, ridiculous, and not at all well thought out. And, you are a coward to boot. Hardly what one imagines a Conservative to be, In fact, from your posts, I doubt that you are one.