From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 09:59:31 MDT
Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> writes:
> <sigh> I'm not talking thermal, I'm talking the shockwave from an
> air blast. It has been calculated that we never need to build
> anything larger than a 100 megaton bomb because at 100 megatons it
> would blast a 10 mile in diameter chunk of atmosphere off into
> space... (Richard Rhodes books)
>
> Are you saying such a blast would have no effect?
Sounds like it would worsen the problem by causing an even lower air
pressure in the core.
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