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Drakens Member	posted 05-27-2008 12:06 PM             http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080527/sc_livescience/environmentallyfriendlybombsplanned quote: To make safer, more environmentally friendly explosives... I think they may be missing the point of explosives here.... IP: Logged
entropy Member	posted 05-27-2008 01:52 PM             Sam Cohen who developed the neurtron bomb is still kicking around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QFXGxw6Tk I first encountered Sam at a DDP meeting in 1995. There was some unpleasantness. I don't believe that Dr. Cohen ever attended another DDP meeting. http://www.quackgrass.com/roots/ddp95.html [This message has been edited by entropy (edited 05-27-2008).] IP: Logged
KGB Moderator	posted 05-27-2008 09:20 PM             The ideal bomb is very safe to handle until it is armed for release with malice aforethought against a target. It then explodes very reliable, leaving as little harmful residue as possible. This assumes you are on the side that means to occupy the bombed territory. So it's not totally incongruous to speak of a safer, environmentally friendly bomb. Just don't kid yourself it's made that way for warm fuzzy reasons. On the neutron bomb: I assume everyone here knows that the idea behind the neutron bomb was to knock out the swarms of Russian tanks we figured would come roaring through the Fulda Gap on the morning of World War III. Tanks are blast resistant, but not very good neutron shielding. The notion that neutron bombs were the ultimate capitalist weapon, destroying The People but leaving all the capital assets untouched, is a Soviet fiction; tracing back this urban myth is equivalent to tracing back funding channels to CPUSA and its foreign equivalents from Moscow. The destructive blast radius of a neutron bomb, against soft targets, is greater than the neutron kill radius. IP: Logged
SPQR Moderator	posted 05-28-2008 02:08 AM             The neutron bombs were still of a reduced yield in effect if memory serves ?? ... I think I saw Jim Dunnigan once quip ( and he may have been quoting someone ) that German cities were 10 kilotons apart. IP: Logged
dlittlew Member	posted 05-28-2008 05:12 PM             It's time to rent Repo Man from NetFlix. I still get a laugh from the smoldering jackboots in the road - all that's left of the highway patrolman who opened the car trunk containing the neutron bomb. IP: Logged
KGB Moderator	posted 05-28-2008 06:12 PM             quote: Originally posted by SPQR: The neutron bombs were still of a reduced yield in effect if memory serves ?? I believe so. quote: ... I think I saw Jim Dunnigan once quip ( and he may have been quoting someone ) that German cities were 10 kilotons apart. I remember it as the villages being two kilotons apart, but yeah. IP: Logged

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