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From: 6600vamp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Le Vampire)
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Subject: Terminology:Nuclear, Atomic, Neutron
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Date: 21 Feb 91 03:09:02 GMT
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From: 6600vamp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Le Vampire)


  The press as well as many of us laymen has the tendency to
throw around the words 'nuclear weapons' and 'atomic weapons'
rather interchangeably. Is there a difference between nuclear
and atomic weapons? Also, is a neutron bomb an atomic/nuclear
weapon. From what I understand it is merely a stripped down
H-bomb. Thanks for the help.