Reply #8: Size Calculations [View All]

[Nederland]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/response/disarm.html

As Will Pitt pointed out in his first Press Secretary event for Kucinich, the intelligence estimates for WMD still exist out on the White House webserver. They are here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/response/disarm.html

The summary is this:

26,000 liters of anthrax—enough to kill several million people.
38,000 liters of botulinum toxin.
500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agents.

In his speech, Will Pitt ran down this list and then sarcastically said 'Hide that', as if to imply that the size of the above list is rather significant. Unfortunately, it isn't. Here's the math:

26,000 liters + 38,000 liters = 64,000 liters = 64 meters cubed
64 meters cubed = 2m x 4m x 8m

A box that is 2x4x8 is a little bigger than a one car garage. Not at all hard to hide. Now I was trying to look up how much volume a ton of sarin gas takes up, but I've been unable to find it. Anybody else out there got a source for this? I'd be curious...