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Subject: Re: Re: Nuclear War casualties
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:36:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 09:36:02 1984
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> 
> Good grief!!!  Is that the kind of analysis you are using???!!
> 
> That is ludicrous!  You are assuming that you can distribute 
> overpressure without regard for the non-linearity of blast.
> You say, well 1 hiroshima bomb killed x people, then 15000 hiroshima
> equivilents will kill 15000x people!  Thats pure garbage!  Didnt
> you ever take a physics course? 
> 
> 				Milo

Milo, I am not talking about 15000 Hiroshima equivalents, the figure is
one million six hundred thousand.  That is one hundred times the figure
you are citing.  Please get your figures straight.
We are also talking about the targeting of every city and town of 15,000
people or more in both countries.  Hiroshima with several hundred thousand
people was thoroughly devastated.  What would an equivalent bomb do to
"Small town ,USA" or "Small town, USSR"?
Please refrain from hystericism-- I realize it is a shock to realize that
the human race is seriously in danger of being extinguished.  But do not
try to deny this reality. We have to do something about it, not pretend
that we can "hide behind lilac bushes " and survive as Gen. Graham, one
of Reagan's advisers claimed.
If you are not convinced by the blast effects I can post more excerpts
from "Fate of the Earth" about the effects on the ozone layer, radioactive
effects, etc.  Please be reasonable.
   Peace, before it's too late!
Tim Sevener  whuxl!orb