From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 23:05:49 MDT
John Clark said:
<<I don't see the point. For this to work you need to know where the warhead
is to an accuracy of about a meter, and if you know that there are easier
and a hell of a lot cheaper ways of destroying it than with a high power
neutrino beam that uses more energy (and money) than God.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net>>
You can detect fissile material, hypothetically, with reaction received from
muons, I have heard. Once detected, you zap the location, which is buried
underground, with your neutrino accelerator, and the Plutonium or Uranium is
transmuted beyond the point of a successful nuclear cascade. You essentially
wind up with a ICDB - an intercontinental dirty bomb. Not the stuff of The
Day After, or Threads, or Panic in the Year Zero, is it? One's enemy is then
left to care-take over some mostly useless missiles. That's the charm, and
unlike chemical explosives attacks, no collateral damage. This in turn makes
the world safe for conventional warfare, gas warfare, germ warfare. Sleep
well world.
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