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To: Anthem
. The sense I get is that smallpox was considered hard to weaponize on any mass scale, too survivable, and too easy to contain. That's why others, such as anthrax,

What have you been reading?

I'm dumbfounded that anyone would be under such an impression.

Perhaps you are mixing it up with weaponizing it.

76 posted on 10/27/2001 7:38:56 AM PDT by tallhappy
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To: tallhappy
Perhaps you are mixing it up with weaponizing it.

I'm having a hard time following you here...(?) I thought it was clear that I was refering to the difficulty of weaponizing smallpox. Also, the material I read, which may have been dated (about 10 years old, if memory serves), mentioned the ability to contain smallpox in the context of the technology/methodology already available that was used to eradicate it.

78 posted on 10/27/2001 8:44:14 AM PDT by Anthem
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