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The New World Disorder |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
| Author: Willis Witter |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,376 Words, 10,112 Characters |
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Intelligence professionals, including the CIA and private security experts, had long feared the possibility of murderous radicals armed with high-tech poisons.vbcrlf On March 20, as commuters made their way to work in downtown Tokyo, those fears turned into a horrifying nightmare. Televised footage of hundreds of Tokyo commuters sprawled on city sidewalks, blinded and gasping for air, provided a grizzly demonstration of the naked vulnerability of large urban populations.vbcrlf Packages containing the deadly nerve gas sarin spewed their deadly fumes simultaneously on five trains heading toward Tokyo's government office building district. The attack left 11 people dead and more than 5,000 injured.vb...
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...cefully that--in the area of chemical warfare, as in others (notably, the threat posed by ballistic missiles that might deliver chemical, biological or nuclear weapons to the United States)--the proper response to threats that simply cannot be negotiated out of existence is to enhance the United States' ability to deter them, and to defend against them in the event that deterrence fails."" vbcrlf
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