Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: pvo3366@sapphire.oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: The Channel Tunnel Message-ID: <11308@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 10 Nov 89 12:40:56 GMT References: <11203@cbnews.ATT.COM> <11280@cbnews.ATT.COM> Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: pvo3366@sapphire.oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) In article <11280@cbnews.ATT.COM> jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. R. Bennett) writes: >From: "Jon C. R. Bennett" > >>Especially if they can get hold of enough explosive, of sufficient power, >>to put a hole in the tunnel.... > ..... >>So where have I gone wrong? Is such an attack impossible? ..... > Unlike bridges, roads, airports, trains etc.; tunnels are extremely difficult to seriously damage with explosives. >I suspect that the SAS is already making contingancy plans, for just such >situations. Some contingency plans you may not have thought of: Because they are so hard to destroy, most tunnels are built with designed- in charge-chambers so that they *can* be destroyed if it is necessary. No transportation link is built without plans on how to destroy it. Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251