From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 11:28:15 MST
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> No, you can't. Because I don't know of any other artificial mechanism
> to effectively sterilize this planet.
Large scale radiological weapons can do a pretty good job. They are
possible, even relatively cheap compared to what was spent on
"conventional" nuclear weapons, but were never built. Why? Because there
is no *military* reason to sterilize the planet.
steve
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