From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 03:14:54 +0800
To: Unicorn <hvdl@sequent.com>
Subject: Re: Nuclear Hedge Funds
In-Reply-To: <19970909130000.60003@sequent.com>
Message-ID: <199709101907.OAA08092@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <19970909130000.60003@sequent.com>, on 09/09/97 
   at 01:00 PM, Unicorn <hvdl@sequent.com> said:

>Destruction by a  nuclear blast is most likely not  even the issue here.
>Using a  relatively small amount  of plutonium  (ie. not even  enough to
>produce a  critical mass) and enough  explosives to blast this  into the
>atmosphere  you  can  kill  a  (very) large  number  of  people  over  a
>relatively  small amount  of  time due  to  plutonium toxication.  These
>devices are the real "dirty  gadgets", not really expensive and therefor
>perfectly suitable for terrorist organisations.

>But what a dreadfull way to die...


The US military during WWII had plans of doing just that in Europe to
poison the crops and aid in the defeat of Germany. 

Luck for Europe this was never followed through.

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