-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19970909130000.60003@sequent.com>, on 09/09/97 at 01:00 PM, Unicorn <hvdl@sequent.com> said:
Destruction by a nuclear blast is most likely not even the issue here. Using a relatively small amount of plutonium (ie. not even enough to produce a critical mass) and enough explosives to blast this into the atmosphere you can kill a (very) large number of people over a relatively small amount of time due to plutonium toxication. These devices are the real "dirty gadgets", not really expensive and therefor perfectly suitable for terrorist organisations.
But what a dreadfull way to die...
The US military during WWII had plans of doing just that in Europe to poison the crops and aid in the defeat of Germany. Luck for Europe this was never followed through. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNBbiTo9Co1n+aLhhAQFxIgQAux4d/Gk5EDl+g/H7SwqrnCh1QlhqkSk5 JIOo1325LCNUyGVJLISd5Y/1rixAXjgWjeiwKk/vDQZQ5k6Je3ofgOgBqz7DWOuy 1M+DUo0B9vIYmlXk5plOLAvn6uycBNLRXf+LaV8H/+H6uLzIskXDSTUrg1+OE6gP WQXNJRcjZJo= =X8Wk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----