Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Nuclear War casualties Message-ID: <294@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:36:02 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.294 Posted: Fri Oct 19 09:36:02 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:25:42 EDT References: <394@wucs.UUCP> <90@whuxk.UUCP> <2730@ucbcad.UUCP> <284@whuxl.UUCP> <2522@ucbvax.ARPA> <288@whuxl.UUCP> <2676@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Bell Labs Lines: 28 > > 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