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In the one example we have of it, a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway at rush hour killed 12 people and seriously injured 50 more. https://en.wikipedia.org/
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
In the one example we have of it, a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway at rush hour killed 12 people and seriously injured 50 more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
Guns and bombs are actually far more effective. Skimming the list of terrorist attacks in 2016, the most deadly seem to be bombs and teams of gunmen (mostly in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Nigeria).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_att...
- coldtea 10y ago>In the one example we have of it, a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway at rush hour killed 12 people and seriously injured 50 more. It also says that it caused "temporary vision problems for nearly 5,000 others" and that "hospitals saw 5,510 patients, seventeen of whom were deemed critical, thirty-seven severe and 984 moderately ill with vision problems". So this says more about the particular gas used or venue chosen, than about the effectiveness of such an attack to reach thousands. A different gas could have had more devastating effects, and same for a different setting (e.g. a closed stadium).