Poll: Choose your WMD
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I would choose anthrax. Nothing like watching people die slowly and painfully with their skin turning black and peeling off. What? I'm not a psychopath... I swear. 
Except the immediate destructive potential of a dirty bomb is underwhelming at best. The weapon concept is only feared because the conventional explosion would distribute radioactive dust across a wide area and while this issue can generally be resolved it has the potential to cause severe long term health problems across a surprisingly wide area. Generally, when people discuss a WMD in anything other than a fearmongering capacity, they wouldn't bother mentioning a dirty bomb.PayJ567 said:
Nuclear weapons are classified WMD for the obvious reason that they offer the umparalled ability to project firepower on a location. Chemical weapons are so classified because modern chemical agents are lethal enough that one can get a few hundred thousand doses in a single gallon sized container. This itself isn't terribly notable until one has an efficient method for dispersal. Because of it's nature, chemical weapons are generally less of a threat on a per weapon basis than nuclear weapons. Biological weapons are the most difficult of all to employ given the high likelyhood of infection of friendly population centers (people do a lot of traveling these days). If you combine the variable lethality rate and commmunicability you end up with a weapon of utter last resort. You can't control it's release, it can potentially be contained and the long term impact on the species as a whole are unknown.
Each of the three major systems are so classified because they have the capacity to kill a staggering number of people with single deployments. Dirty bombs, though more dangerous that a conventional bomb, simply cannot be said to be anywhere near the league of even a small nuclear weapon, a single VX rocket or a paultry vial of weaponized smallpox.
Just a quick comparison. Largest Thermobaric weapon in existance: 11 tonnes TNT equivalent. Blast at Hiroshima: 25,000 tonnes TNT equivalent.darkless said:
Sorry kiddo, that's just not going to cut it.
Neither of those..
Instead, a singularity bomb that rips a hole through the fabric of time and space, and spews out confused and aggressive historical figures, causing chaos and hilarious carnage.
Think of it: Albert Einstein, riding on a T-rex, with several Lincoln cyborgs fighting off the remnants.
...Or, if it were allowed, a powerful ritual to summon the wrath of Odin, for abandoning his ways.
Instead, a singularity bomb that rips a hole through the fabric of time and space, and spews out confused and aggressive historical figures, causing chaos and hilarious carnage.
Think of it: Albert Einstein, riding on a T-rex, with several Lincoln cyborgs fighting off the remnants.
...Or, if it were allowed, a powerful ritual to summon the wrath of Odin, for abandoning his ways.
