What is “biological warfare” in layman’s terms?
They are cheap and effective. Termed, “the poor man’s nuclear bomb”, biological warfare agents are relatively easy to acquire, produce and deploy. Compared to chemical warfare agents, only a small amount of biological warfare agent is necessary to kill hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people in a metropolitan center. Moreover, biological weapons are also relatively easy to conceal and dispersal can be performed with little or no chance of being detected. Low technology aerosolization methods are only required, such as agricultural crop dusters or aerosol generators on trucks, cars or even a purse-size perfume atomizer. According to the Federation of American Scientists, biological agents used as weapons offer a unique capability to inflict large numbers of casualties over a wide area with minimal logistics requirements. In 1969, the United Nations estimated that the cost of conducting warfare operations against a civilian population at $1.00 per square kilometer for biologica
