[Lurker]

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

Wrong. I've seen ALOHA simulations which show that a bio attack could have several times more casualties than a small nuke would as well as a larger hot zone.

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[Delta 21]

Yep. A bio attack could cause hundreds of times the deaths of a nuke attack.

[archy]

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

Wrong. I've seen ALOHA simulations which show that a bio attack could have several times more casualties than a small nuke would as well as a larger hot zone.

Correct. And bioiagents can be *the gift that keeps on giving,* remaining dormant until a recovering population reaches a certain higher level of activity before revisiting.

Europe's *Black Death of the 14th/15th/16th century, probably a combination of Yersinia pestis and Anthrax with some typhoid outbreaks thrown in for good measure, killed somewhere around a quarter to two-thirds of Europe's population. And could pretty easily do so again.