Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kevin A Geiselman) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Space Gun Message-ID: <1990Jul18.040721.13911@cbnews.att.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 04:07:21 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Kevin A Geiselman The 5 May 1990 issue of 'The Economist' has an article on the space gun, that wonderfully simple concept that the Iraqi's were trying to build a few months back. The practical idea of building a cannon which could achieve escape velocities (7000 m/s) was developed by Dr. Gerald Bull, a canadian scientist assassinated in March, likely as a result of his involvement with the Iraqi's project. My questions to the net: does anyone have any information about Dr. Bull's space gun first hand? That is; can anyone find any books, papers, or journal articles authored by Dr. Bull about his gun? I had heard that he has written a book on the topic but all I've been able to find are periodical articles that deal with is death and mention the gun. I'm looking for technical stuff here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin A. Geiselman Internet : mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu : mongol@pittvms.bitnet (412) 241-5447 US Mail : 301 Overdale Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4435