From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 20:41:27 MDT
At 05:20 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Robert Bradbury pointed us to:
>Gamma-ray weapons could trigger next arms race
>David Hambling, 13 August 2003
>NewScientist.com
>http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994049
Oh my Gawd. (Mouth hangs open for impolitely long period.)
Within five years thousands of dollars per kilogram makes
material can suddenly release 50Kg of TNT worth of energy.
So that's less than a dollar for bullet that releases
a truck bomb worth of energy on impact? It really is a
new millennium.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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