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...kept alive. But chemical weapons aren't well suited for inflicting widespread damage. Unlike germs, chemical agents can't reproduce, observes Tucker. "You have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid or inhaled as a vapor, you would need something like a crop-dusting plane--which is why investigators last week were so alarmed to find a manual for operating crop-dusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts. Still, to attack...
...rising rates of violent crime, people generally feel safe enough to let six-year-olds ride the Tokyo subways by themselves, and schoolchildren wander about on school trips without chaperones. The country's murder rate, for example, is one-sixth of that in the U.S. Yet, ever since the sarin-gas subway attacks at the hands of a religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, Japan has become increasingly aware that something is wrong with its well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate...
...Japanese, one more wall of safety has been breached. One more belief exploded. Despite rising rates of violent crime, people still generally feel safe, safe enough to let 6-year-olds ride the Tokyo subways by themselves. Yet since the subway sarin-gas attacks at the hands of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, the Japanese have had to face the realization that something was becoming terribly unhinged in their well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later...
...Tokyo Metropolitan Police would eventually assign more officers to this case than it had to the 1995 sarin gas attack in the city subway system that had killed 12 and injured 5,500. They finally got their suspect on Oct. 12 when a 48-year-old Japanese businessman named Joji Obara was detained in connection with Lucie's disappearance. On April 6, Obara, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence, was charged with her death: a rape that apparently turned into murder. Police officials, speaking off the record to the Japanese press, suggest he may have raped as many...
However, there's more to national security than preventing North Korean missiles from shortening Long Island. Guaranteeing the security of every American citizen also involves making sure that the New York City subway system does not fall victim to a similar attack to Tokyo's sarin gas tragedy in 1995. For such terrorist attacks, a strategic national security response is much less clear-cut. After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. military reacted with missile attacks in Afghanistan and the Sudan-by some considered terrorist acts in themselves. Not surprisingly, the reaction...