tinian_circus

I can do you one better for terror-facts:

Surgeons come in at #5 for professions with the most psychopaths.

Westjet systems

I didn't realize WestJet was into fighters. A 737 does look like it could hang a whole lotta AMRAAMs.

Loathe as I was to link to Huffington Post, Scientific American reviewed the book positively. I don't own the book but I'd imagine the list comes from a credible study.

A more realistic example would be consumer electronics, which is still pretty value-dense and shipped in massive quantities. I'd guesstimate maybe 100 times less than your pharmaceutical example.

That still means an $8 billion dollar sinking. The knock-on effects would probably be where the most damage is done though - severe supply shortages, no new Xboxes for the Christmas season, massive upheaval as chains of companies (and the suppliers of those companies) lose entire sales quarters. Actually this is kinda scary.

Modern wars are so fast that it might be over before the first convoy is even loaded & assembled.

Interesting side note: when ships started getting really big (such as very large crude carriers) the easiest way to deal with one was thought to be with a nuclear torpedo - otherwise a sub might use up all its conventional weapons and still not be confident of a sinking. The Seawise Giant for example was hit with multiple cruise missiles and only sunk later because of the resulting fires.