Nuclear Hedge Funds
William H. Geiger III
whgiii at amaranth.com
Wed Sep 10 12:14:54 PDT 1997
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In <19970909130000.60003 at sequent.com>, on 09/09/97
at 01:00 PM, Unicorn <hvdl at 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.
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