[ RadSafe ] Re: No funding for earth penetrating nuclear weap on
John Jacobus
crispy_bird at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 27 16:40:33 CDT 2005
It is important to remember that use of nuclear
weapons is more of a political not military decision.
Consider what the consequences and collaterial damage
would have be if you miss the target? What if they
were used against the "weapons of mass destruction"
that were found in Iraq?
--- Wilson Robert H PSNS <wilsonr at psns.navy.mil>
wrote:
> They already have a "Bunker Buster" using
> conventional explosives, and it is
> not a very far reach to extend that to a nuclear
> explosive device. Seems to
> me just a matter of matching the yield to the
> intended victim or target.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal C [mailto:hacrad at comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: radsafe
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: No funding for earth
> penetrating nuclear weapon
>
>
> 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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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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