Since dry anthrax is a much more potent weaponization of the agent, it is likely that Iraq would try to pursue this route as opposed to the wet anthrax weaponization. We expect our team's SMEs to build at least the following domain-specific knowledge in the system. For each activity, the model will specify the necessary materials, personnel, resources, etc. as well as duration, necessary previous activities or conditions, etc. Wet anthrax takes the form of a liquid slurry. The production methods used to develop wet and dry anthrax share some common elements, but differ in several key final process steps.
Fermentation is used to grow the anthrax spores, regardless of the wet or dry end state.
Once produced, dry agents have far less stringent storage requirements than wet agent, which require environmentally-controlled storage. Also, dry agent can be dispensed more easily than wet agent, which requires sophisticated aerosol dispersion mechanisms to acheive the most effective spore size. On the other hand, dry agents are very easy to dispense and are hardier in the environment - hence their battlefield utility. Liquid agent dispensers require very precise aerosol mechanisms to yield the desired particle size without too much product destruction in the process. The principal tradeoff between production difficulty and delivery difficulty is one which occurs with many BW agents.