Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!emks From: emks@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re:Expertise:Nuclear War Casualties Message-ID: <5000116@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 01:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.5000116 Posted: Tue Nov 27 01:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:49:49 EST References: <328@whuxl.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:whuxl:-32800:uokvax:5000116:000:898 Nf-From: uokvax!emks Nov 27 00:30:00 1984 /***** 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 /* ---------- */ 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