[ RadSafe ] Re: No funding for earth penetrating nuclear weapon

[John Jacobus]

Hal,
I think what Jerry is referring to is the physics
associated surface and subsurface blast associated
with nuclear weapons.  See "Nuclear Bunker Busters,
Mini-Nukes, and the US Nuclear Stockpile," Physics
Today, November 2003, at 
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-11/p32.html

If you cannot access this article, let me know and I
will send a copy.

--- Hal C <hacrad at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure what fundamental laws you a referring
> too but from the 
> newspapers I've read, the project is continuing but
> with high explosive 
> warheads.
> 
> Hal_C
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>
> To: "Jaro" <jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca>
> Cc: "radsafe" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] News: No funding for earth
> penetrating nuclear 
> weapon
> 
> 
> > Jaro,
> >    My opposition to the "bunker buster" weapon
> development has nothing to
> > do with its potential effects, or its potential
> utility as a weapon. I
> > simply doubt that it would ever work, and object
> to spending 
> > multi-megabucks
> > on a project that would require finding an
> exception to the fundamental 
> > laws
> > of physics.     Jerry
> >

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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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