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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.UU.NET (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Blasting Sadam's Bunker(s)
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Date: 21 Feb 91 02:45:34 GMT
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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.UU.NET (Clayton Cramer)

In article <1991Feb18.052927.10010@cbnews.att.com>, dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
> 
> I have another idea for going after bunkers. How about training
> some sort of animal to climb down airshafts? 

Crazy ideas are never new?  During WW II, the U.S. had a similar
idea involving bats.  The bats were fitted with explosive charges,
cooled off (bats tolerate inactivity cause by cold much better than
most mammals), defrosted, and then dropped over at least one Japanese 
city.

The theory was that they would roost in Japanese buildings, the
timers would go off, and the resulting fires would cause great
fires in the incendiary material of a Japanese city.  In practice,
it didn't really work very well.

War brings out such...creativity in people.



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Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
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You must be kidding!  No company would hold opinions like mine!