The only quibbles I have are as follows: 1) He writes in regard to the Sarin attack in the Tokyo subway "the injured were better in a few hours." Actually, according to an Air University study "Over 5000 were injured, some receiving such severe damage to their cardiovascular system that they will ultimately die as a result of the attack. Others will survive but with lifelong effects." (Source: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:lyAwPQGhe-IC:https://research.maxwell.af.mil/papers/student/ay2000/acsc/00-040.pdf+AUM+SHINRIKYO+AND+WEAPONS+OF+MASS+DESTRUCTION+A+CASE+STUDY&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 ). 2) Also, he skips over the fact that the subway attacks were very nearly quite catastrophic. Consider the following from a past report by a U.S. Senate subcommittee: "As planned, most of the stricken trains converged at the height of rush hour and disgorged their sick and frightened passengers. The Aum's plan succeeded in killing twelve and injuring 5,500 people. It also succeeded in causing panic and chaos in the station and throughout Tokyo as commuters and subway workers alike collapsed into severe fits of coughing, choking and vomiting. It was only a fortunate mistake by the Aum in the preparation of the special batch of sarin used that day and the inferior dissemination system used to deploy it that limited the number of casualties. If not for these mistakes, the Staff has been told by chemical weapons experts, tens of thousands could have easily been killed in this busy subway system that moves over five million passengers a day. Despite the poor quality of the sarin and its inadequate delivery system, the scene under the streets of Tokyo that morning was terrifying. Reports reviewed by the Staff describe men, women and children in panic, coughing uncontrollably, vomiting and collapsing in heaps. On one of the platforms over 30 passengers collapsed after being overcome with fumes that were strong enough to be smelled one floor above at the ticket counters. Subway workers and other emergency workers who first arrived on the scene quickly became victims themselves." Source: Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo, Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, October 31, 1995 Staff Statement 3) Also, something to keep in mind is that many of the reasons he gives for likely lack of casualties is that it is assumed that the attacks will take place in relatively large areas, i.e., outdoors. If an agent were to be used in a confined space, office building, mall, subway car much of what he says would be irrelevant. Still, I agree with his larger point, that there is FAR too much hype and too little fact. David Isenberg