{"id":194949,"date":"2008-08-06T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/so-how-did-he-weaponize-the-spores\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:21:00","slug":"so-how-did-he-weaponize-the-spores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/so-how-did-he-weaponize-the-spores\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Did He Weaponize the Spores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looking this <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/06\/america\/07anthrax.php\">description of the document dump made by the FBI<\/a>, the most important question has not been answered: <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">how did he weaponize the spores<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Drying the spores with the lyophilizer is certainly possible, but this stuff was weaponized in a sophisticated way.  It was reduced to tiny particles with a coating to prevent them from clumping, and it also gave them a static charge to help create an aerosol.<\/p>\n<p>This is a non trivial operation, and the equipment, and expertise, was simply not available at Fort Detrick.<\/p>\n<p>If he was acting alone, then we do not have the means made public yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about 51% on this guy being the mailer, but more information needs to be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looking this description of the document dump made by the FBI, the most important question has not been answered: how did he weaponize the spores. Drying the spores with the lyophilizer is certainly possible, but this stuff was weaponized in a sophisticated way. It was reduced to tiny particles with a coating to prevent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioweapons","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}