Re: Fading Extropy: More threats.

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 14:03:13 MDT


On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Samantha Tennison wrote:

> Who can doubt that all it would take is a single
> suit-case nuke going off in the US to totally collopse
> the already fragile economy?

Since I just made a post in response to the report that
Anders pointed out I have to respond to this.

Classical "Suit-case" nukes are ~0.1 kt devices and would
not do enough damage to bring down the economy.

> There is now growing evidence
> that "red mercury" nukes have been developed which
> enable 2 megaton bombs to be the size of baseballs.

Can we have some evidence here? What is this "red mercury"
stuff? (I know I've heard the phrase before but I'm
unfamiliar with any physics that makes it reasonable
that you can get a 2 MT bomb the size of a baseball.)

Robert



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