Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Early WMDs

This is a short but fair read.
Mayor quotes a king in Asia Minor of the 2nd century BC who was defeated when Hannibal "catapulted live snakes onto his ships." The king remarked that "he did not think any general would want to obtain a victory by the use of means which might in turn be directed against himself."
The earliest weapons of mass destruction | csmonitor.com

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