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From: clarke@utcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
Message-ID: <719@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 13:26:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 13:26:41 1985
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Reply-To: clarke@utcs.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
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In article <1126@ubc-cs.UUCP> robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>I don't see why a few well placed *neutron* bombs wouldn't solve the
>problem. No more people, but lots of usable real estate. (So much for
>resisting with conventional weapons)
>
>J.B. Robinson

It is a popular fallacy that a neutron bomb doesn't leave a big hole in
the ground.  The balance between radiation damage and mechanical damage
is different in a neutron bomb from the balance in a "conventional" (?!)
nuclear bomb (and the total yield is probably less than average, since the
neutron bomb is intended to be a "tactical" weapon), but it still makes
a VERY big bang.

There was an article on this in the Scientific American a few years back,
when the neutron bomb was a big issue.