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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Thirty Seconds over Tripoli
Message-ID: <8779@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 89 11:37:40 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> My suspicion is that the Soviet Air Defense Ministry would not hesitate to 
> fire a nuke over Soviet water, at the very least, and might not worry too 
> hard about a high-altitude (say 55,000 - B-2 cruising altitude?) air-burst
> over the landmass itself.

I think they'd hesitate for a long time; they may not have as much
transistorized or IC-based gear as we do, but the EMP pulse is still
going to be quite damaging.