ACTIVITY #5

Cheap, and easily available

Great damage (fear)

It takes a long time for effects to show up
• It may hurt the as well

People will get sick, but perhaps not many will

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• Botulism toxins
• Cholera
• Plague
• Smallpox

• Devastating effects
• Great psychological
• Escalates an attack to all-out war

• Heavy
• Expensive (hundreds of of dollars)
• Very difficult to make and to deploy

• Death by nuclear explosion
• Radiation burns
• poisoning
• Long-term effects such as cancers

• Easy to make from homemade materials
• Ignite about of the time
• Fire is very frightening

• Unless accompanied by the effect of a bombing, the victim population
knows how to deal with
• The terrorist may destroy more property than lives

 Trigger methods can be , electronic, or mechanical
• Delivery methods can be stationary, hand-thrown, or self-propelled

• , easy to make and easily available
• Has an immediate effect
• Great psychological damage (fear)

• Need to have a lot to have a mass effect
• Dangerous to produce and for the terrorist

• Mustard
• Cyanide
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• Sarin

• Dramatic
• risk
• Easy to execute remote attacks

• May damage both the intended and innocent bystanders, such as babies
• Not simple to make the attack covert

Over 70% of domestic terrorist incidents involve

• Pipe bombs
• Vehicle bombs
• Suicide bombs