Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utcs!clarke 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 Article-I.D.: utcs.719 Posted: Thu Jun 27 13:26:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 11:42:31 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: clarke@utcs.UUCP (Jim Clarke) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 16 Summary: 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.