Despite the terrible threat of chemical and biological terrorism, it has never been very effectively accomplished. One exception was a horrifying event in Tokyo, when a nerve gas called SARIN, an agent originally used by the Nazis, was placed in five subway cars during rush hour, killing 12 and sickening thousands.
The subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity...It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them...
By Saturday most of the patients who survived the subway gassing had left St. Luke's...
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