Tuesday, March 20, 2007
This Day in the History of Not That Effective Terrorist Attacks
On this day in 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing poisonous gas (the nerve agent Sarin) leaked on five separate subway trains. This extreme ratio of dead to injured is typical of poison gas attacks during WWI and the very recent chlorine gas attacks in Iraq, but one would think, with as lethal an agent as Sarin in an enclosed space like the subway, that at least hundreds would have died. The logical conclusion is that even nerve gas is just not that deadly in real world war uses.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 1:38 AM 
