Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: sfn20715@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Norton) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Shielding Nukes Message-ID: <8661@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 28 Jul 89 02:54:06 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Steve Norton Let's try to put it into the proper perspective. Can anyone asign some numbers here? Like... how many milirems, at one meter from a nuke?... would be a good place to start. Then, we could let the consumer be the judge. It would be a pity if I had to move this off to sci.physics to get a hard answer. The Amateur Radio Forum (arf) +-+-+-+-+-+ No offense to you readers out there, but I think very few of us could assign numbers. I also think that anyone who could assign numbers would have to know quite a bit of info about a warhead (i.e. mass of Pu, location, materials used, etc.) and would thus have a pretty good security clearance. (I.e. the feds will bust ya if you tell us.) I once had a Nuclear Engineering professor who couldn't talk to us undergrads about the experimental reactor on campus because of such a federal restriction. (Of course, there were plenty of non-restricted professors on campus who would be more than willing to discuss warhead and reactor design with us! ;-) )