Binary

BINARY: any system composed of two interacting elements. As in binary stars, binary numbers, binary gases, etc.

Chemical agents lend themselves to covert use in sabotage against which it is exceedingly difficult to visualize any really effective defence… I will not dwell upon this use of CBS because, as one pursues the possibilities of such covert uses, one discovers that the scenarios resemble that in which the components of a nuclear weapon are smuggled into New York City and assembled in the basement of the Empire State Building.

In other words, once the possibility is recognized to exist, about all that one can do is worry about it.

Dr Ivan L. Bennett, _7r testifying before the

Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments, November 20, 1969

This book was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican Party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach.

John Lange