Nuclear Pipe Bombs

[Bill Stewart]

At 05:23 PM 11/19/2001 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
>
> > Won't work on Berkeley, though.  The City Council declared Berkeley a
> > "Nuclear Free Zone."  Guess that leaves only conventional weapons.
>
>Those restrictions usually also prohibit the *design* of nuclear weapons
>(don't know if Berzerkeley's does) in which case they are
>unconstitutional because of the First.

The ban implicitly covers americium-based smoke detectors,
but fortunately when I lived in the East Bay I was a few blocks
out of Hayward city limits so I could use them,
as long as I drove the long way around when I bought more :-)