Re: Paper>YOUR NUKES WILL BE DESTROYED!

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 06:10:17 MDT

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    John Clark asked:
    <<I still don’t get it. If you know exactly where the warhead is you can blow
    it up with a simple cruse missile, or if it’s deep underground drop bunker
    buster bomb on it, there shouldn’t be much collateral damage and it wouldn’t
    bankrupt the world economy like a high power neutrino beam would.
              John K Clark      jonkc@att.net >>

    One aspect is that if civilization is ever able to develop such a device, you
    can apply it silently. You can buzz the enemy so quietly, that they wouldn't
    even know what hit them. Not a single clod of dirt would be disturbed. As was
    pointed out earlier, one might also shut down an enemies' nuclear power
    reactors-a double whammy.

    Secondly, there is no current technology that would penetrate deeply enough
    to destroy a really well-protect underground facility. An extremely deep,
    reinforced bunker, is safe from a bunker buster bomb. This is the primary
    reason the Bush administration is going small on low radiation yield, nuclear
    explosives.

    Thirdly, this may be a conceivable dark horse technology, which perhaps, may
    beat Star Wars lasers into wide use. Imagine striking a North Korean fission
    bomb on the fly. It lands near Hawaii and splash, poof..nothing. Please
    remember that this is all speculative, but its great when scientists are able
    to speculate and propose and thus, educate a curious public with new
    possibilities.



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