[ RadSafe ] RE: Report on NAS Study on Bunker Buster Nuclear Weapons

[John Jacobus]

I guess not everyone has heard of using uraniun rods
as munitions. Do you have references?

--- Jaro <jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> This NAS Study on Bunker Busters is silly.
> 
> Its publicly known that DU rods, perhaps 20 feet
> long and one foot in
> diameter, striking at speeds upwards of 12,000 feet
> per second, could reach
> hardened bunkers several stories underground.
> Its not a new concept.
> They're colloquially called "Rods from God", because
> they come down from
> space -- like any other


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


		
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