People ask me why I’m not worried about the specter of global terrorism and this is why.
The thing about chemical weapons that I think people miss, especially bunglesome wannabe terrorists, is that they’re rarely more effective or dangerous than conventional explosives, pound for pound, but also carry a lot more risk to the operator, and a greater chance of getting caught. I know this and I didn’t go to “terrorist school.” I just happened to do some back of napkin calculations for a blog post on chemical warfare. I might have been a freshman bio major at the time…like I genuinely knew fuck-all about the physics and chemistry of it. These people are rarely masterminds. As evidenced by doing things like posting IS propaganda and ordering ricin like you would from Amazon.
Mostly I feel sorry for the hamster.
