Comments on: Biological Weapons Pose Realistic Threat, Say Former Senators http://talkradionews.com/2009/06/biological-weapons-pose-realistic-threat-say-former-senators/ The Talk Radio News Service is the only information news service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Arnold http://talkradionews.com/2009/06/biological-weapons-pose-realistic-threat-say-former-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-45413 Brad Arnold Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:53:58 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=29441#comment-45413 Individuals can now construct highly contagious extremely lethal virus. A pandemic is the antithesis of globalization. Nuclear blindness is the misconception that the bigger the bang the more powerful the weapon. A highly contagious virus is a bomb that keeps exploding through the population at a geometric rate. "Richard Danzig, a former Navy secretary and now a biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon, said that while there are 1,000 to 10,000 "weaponeers" worldwide with experience working on biological arms, there are more than 1 million and perhaps many millions of "broadly skilled" scientists who, while lacking training in that narrow field, could construct bioweapons. "It seems likely that, over a period between a few months and a few years, broadly skilled individuals equipped with modest laboratory equipment can develop biological weapons," Danzig said. "Only a thin wall of terrorist ignorance and inexperience now protects us."" --Washington Post, December 29, 2004 Individuals can now construct highly contagious extremely lethal virus. A pandemic is the antithesis of globalization. Nuclear blindness is the misconception that the bigger the bang the more powerful the weapon. A highly contagious virus is a bomb that keeps exploding through the population at a geometric rate.

“Richard Danzig, a former Navy secretary and now a biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon, said that while there are 1,000 to 10,000 “weaponeers” worldwide with experience working on biological arms, there are more than 1 million and perhaps many millions of “broadly skilled” scientists who, while lacking training in that narrow field, could construct bioweapons. “It seems likely that, over a period between a few months and a few years, broadly skilled individuals equipped with modest laboratory equipment can develop biological weapons,” Danzig said. “Only a thin wall of terrorist ignorance and inexperience now protects us.”" –Washington Post, December 29, 2004

]]> By: Viking6 http://talkradionews.com/2009/06/biological-weapons-pose-realistic-threat-say-former-senators/comment-page-1/#comment-45291 Viking6 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:49 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=29441#comment-45291 The WMD/CBRN/CBRNE/NBC/CBR threat translates to "preparedness". If you are prepared....you are less likely to get contaminated, less likely to stand up in the bright flash, and less likely to rely on a non-compliant respirator to protect your breathing zone. The WMD/CBRN/CBRNE/NBC/CBR threat translates to “preparedness”. If you are prepared….you are less likely to get contaminated, less likely to stand up in the bright flash, and less likely to rely on a non-compliant respirator to protect your breathing zone.

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