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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
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Subject: Re: Mines
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Date: 8 Dec 89 04:13:49 GMT
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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)

In article <11917@cbnews.ATT.COM> mmm@cup.portal.com writes:
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>
>From: mmm@cup.portal.com
>I remember seeing pictures of nuclear mines, both for land and sea.  (It was
>in an article about a nuclear weapons museum on a military base in New
>Mexico.)  Can anyone enlighten me as to what these were intended to be used
>for?  (Can you imagine a truck running over a mine, then a nuclear explosion
>takes place?)  Were these things ever put into production?

If my (admittedly unofficial) sources are correct, one place to find about
20 of them is in the Fulda Gap.

     --Hal

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