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- Subject: Post-StarWars Detritus (was: Who can launch antisats?)
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:54:05 GMT
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- Doug Mohney <sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu> writes:
- > Actual use of a nuclear weapon .. would result in ..
- > EMP problems you'd cause for commercial sats and
- > (possibly) electronics on the ground.
- > It would be bad. And a waste of good fissionables
- > for other purposes.
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- There could also be megabits of nugget-sized space
- junk to ventilate any later space vehicles. But also,
- if plutonium warheads are "destroyed" by Smart Pebbles
- (or whatever they're being called now), couldn't the
- atmosphere be filled with enough plutonium dust to
- give every person on the planet bone cancer ?
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- --
- * Fred Baube * when you think your Toys you hear Laughter
- * Optiplan O.Y. * have gone Berserk cracking through the Walls
- * baube@optiplan.fi * it's an illUsion you're sent Spinning
- * #include <disclaimer.h> * you Cannot Shirk you Have No Choice
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