(August 26, 2013 at 4:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: There is a great deal of difference between the compactness, reliability, deployability, and lethality of a chemical device cobbled together in some terrorist's basement, and military chemical munition.
A chemical artillery shell detonating in subway would be totally different in likely result from the paper package enclosing a chemistry experiment that was smuggled aboard the Tokyo subway.
This.
Weaponizing chemicals is not something that's easy to do as a home science project. Making the stuff is relatively easy. Delivering it efficiently is hard.
Had the Tokyo subway attack been perpetrated using military chemical munitions, the death toll could have been in the thousands.
