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...Although CB weapons work very well against crops, it is easy for human beings to protect themselves by wearing gas masks or entering shelters -- provided they are warned. Only in a surprise attack, then, are the weapons effective. "It puts an enormous premium on the low blow," Meselson says...
...military, chemical-biological warfare (CB warfare, for short) is too unpredictable. Military strategists cannot measure the exact range a virus will cover, the way they can for a fusion blast. Resistance to the disease would be unknown, and would vary with the victims. The problems of delivering the dose, which would have to be in the form of an aerosol cloud, are technically difficult, Meselson suggests. "Even if it could be improved in the remote future," he says, military control "would suffer along...
Meselson admits that CB weaponry is less unpredictable as a strategic weapon. But if we are interested in larger areas, we already have the Bomb...
There are no such guarantees for CB arms, Meselson maintains. Although they are not cheap now, they will be once the pioneering stage is completed. The result, he suggests, could be disastrous. "Today, a madman in America might climb to the top of a tower for a shooting spree, or put a bomb in an airplane. But if CB weaponry were conventional, maniacs would constitute an enormous threat. An insane man could wipe out New York City...
...CB--Dave Schraver (Winthrop...