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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Question about Nuclear Weapons (i.e. under water)
Keywords: MRVs
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Date: 1 Nov 90 02:41:04 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
*>In fact the easiest way to  stop a booby  trapped big A- or H-bomb would
*>probably  be to detonate  a large  explosion  near it.  It  would spread
*>fissile material around but couldn't detonate it.

Speaking of which, how many times have
you seen, on TV or in movies, someone 
disarming a nuclear bomb by removing a 
piece of it out of a hole in such a way 
"that this here thing better not touch 
the sides or we'll be crispy critters...." 

Makes for great drama, but how accurate 
is it?? 8-)

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