From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 12:59:23 MST
From: "Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com>
>IMO, the picture isn't that simple. Early nanotech won't be able
>to burrow that well - remember, there is nothing preventing us
>from using 100 MT warheads instead of the puny <200 KT devices
>currently in fashion. Later nanotech could do it, but by then
>you're facing multi-gigaton weapons. Mature nanotech could protect
>you from anything reasonable, but by then I would expect all
>threats to be pretty unreasonable. For a good level of security,
>you really need a good anti-missile system and enough room to use
>it.
Actually current thinking is that there is no need to build larger
than 100MT. At 100MT a 10 mile diameter chunk of atmosphere blows
off into space. Larger bombs only blow the same 10 mile chunk at a
faster rate. Unless we're talking planet busting.
Brian
Member, Extropy Institute
www.extropy.org
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