BIOCHEM WEAPONS NO BIGGIE

BIOCHEM WEAPONS NO BIGGIE
Gregg Easterbrook has a message for the people driving themselves into a frenzy over a possible chemical or biological attack: chill.
"The image of... clouds of biological weapons envelop(ing) a city owes more to science fiction than reality," he writes in the New York Times. "Any one person's odds of harm far less than a million to one. Your risk of dying in a car accident while driving to buy duct tape likely exceeds your risk of dying because you lacked duct tape."
Why? Because, as I've reported previously, it's almost impossible to actually mount a poison strike. Easterbrook notes, "The Japanese use of fleas infected with bubonic plague against Chinese cities in World War II was the only successful instance of bioattacks in contemporary warfare."