billder

Joined: 02 Feb 2002
Posts: 319
Location: pasco county fl |
Found in a story about biowarfare....
Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:56 pm
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...He also knew intimate details of nuclear hardware poised on both sides of face off. Seems had to: radiation level often key factor (In biological warfare). In many cases benign virus, bacteria turned instantaneously inimical upon exposure to critical wavelengths...only difference between harmless tourist and pathogen: Soothing counsel transmitted from pacific gene in DNA helixto cytoplasmic arsenal by radiation vulnerable RNA messenger. Enter energy particle flood, exit restraint; hello Atilla the germ. Clever, these mad scientists....Entire country seeded over period of time with innocuous first stage organisms until siufficiently widespread...then every inch of target irradiated...no defense against this type of attack.....David R. Palmer...EMERGENCE 1980
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