[Alamo-Girl]

My understanding is that the stages to developing weaponinzed anthrax would be something like this:

1. Growing the anthrax in a liquid form.

2. Drying the anthrax

3. Milling it to a small size so the victim will inhale it deep into the lungs.

4. Applying some anti-static additive so the anthrax will stay suspending in the air so more will be inhaled.

5. Genetically engineering the anthrax to make it resistant to antibiotics.

Russia, the US and perhaps some other countries have been able to do all of these steps and produce a truly lethal biochem.

Iraq on the other hand was stopped short of step 5.

The terminology used by everyone is accurate, but they are all stopping short of drawing the obvious conclusion. (ahem...)

Biological Weapons and Genetic Engineering

US Government White Paper on Iraq

How the Iraq bioweapons program came to light

[Jefferson Adams]

AG, hows come you're always so danged succint?

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[kcat]

Hi Alamo-Girl

I have enjoyed your posts today. Thank you for clarity on a couple of issues on which you have posted.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At the White House briefing with Ridge it seemed to me that the were trying to get Ridge to connect some of the more obvious dots ... He refused to do so.

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[pops88]

My understanding is that the stages to developing weaponinzed anthrax would be something like this:
1. Growing the anthrax in a liquid form.
2. Drying the anthrax
3. Milling it to a small size so the victim will inhale it deep into the lungs.
4. Applying some anti-static additive so the anthrax will stay suspending in the air so more will be inhaled.
5. Genetically engineering the anthrax to make it resistant to antibiotics.

According to the book "Plague Wars" by Tom Mangold, the U.S. made a break though in 1963 that allowed the production of tiny, dry particles of biologic weapons without milling. He wrote that the milling problem had been a serious production drawback. So this was almost 40 years ago....

[_Jim]

Milling it to a small size so the victim will inhale it deep into the lungs.

Milling - thereby destroying the outer protective layer of the spore?

I *don't* think so.

THIS is an organism in a state of hibernation - it's basically a seed - with a protective outer covering.

Milling it would destroy that outer covering ...

[newzjunkey]

Excellent post. As always. :)