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From: emks@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re:Expertise:Nuclear War Casualties
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 01:30:00 EST
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/***** uokvax:net.politics / watmath!saquigley /  1:46 am  Nov 23, 1984 */
Sure, we might be able to survive the initial blast if we dig deep enough
holes, but then what?  How will we survive if our whole life supporting
system on the planet is destroyed?  surviving for a few days is not the 
same as surviving.

Sophie Quigley
...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley
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Um, I think that Jeff was referring to surviving the initial prompt radiation
(and, I guess, fallout--if any).  That's a lot different than blast.  Blast
protection probably requires some sort of special protective construction.

But I don't understand how our planet will necessarily be destroyed.  For
some reason, you seem to lump terms like "nuclear war" with "total annihil-
ation of the earth."  Why?  Detonations of several endo-atmospheric weapons
didn't halt life on earth...I think... :-)

		kurt