Originally Posted by
MacLeanBarrier
“The fatal potential of even glancing contact with fentanyl is a major reason why national security experts are becoming alarmed at the prospect of it being used to sow terror. The drug is ‘a significant threat to national security,’ Michael Morell, the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, wrote last year.
‘It is a weapon of mass destruction.’
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“As a tool of terror, the drug
would work best in a closed space, said Daniel Gerstein, a senior policy researcher at Rand Corp. who served as acting undersecretary in the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate in the Obama administration.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/busin...ss-destruction
Yeah, yeah, that's great, but what about my other question? Has fentanyl or its derivatives ever been used, even once, as a weapon of terror or mass destruction by anyone other than the Russian government?
To me this is another one of those theoretical threat vectors that, while it may indeed be
possible, is unlikely enough that spending millions of dollars developing a defense against it is not only a tremendous waste, but a dangerous distraction that draws resources and attention away from much-needed defenses against far more likely threat vectors.