He is charged with murder, possession of an instrument in a crime, abuse of a corpse and causingcatastrophe, according to Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia district attorney's office.
There is only one reason to consider deploying a scheme with even a tiny chance of causing such a catastrophe: if the risks of not deploying it were clearly higher.
Were they to do so, it would be a catastrophe for the world -- causing extraordinary loss of life, and striking a major blow to global peace and stability.