From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!peschman
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Warhead Question? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1239
Posted: Wed Dec 15 15:37:02 1982
Received: Fri Dec 17 05:42:00 1982

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uicsovax!peschman    Dec 15 14:13:00 1982



	I don't want to start a discussion on whether or not we need
more or less nuclear weapons, but would appreciate some EDUCATED 
information.  I heard (I think on NOVA) someone say, "Any nuclear
physisct would agree that 500-600 megatons of atomic weapons would
be sufficeint to destroy either the U.S. or the USSR as we know them."
	To nuclear physiscts, is this true?  Can anyone with some
backround in atomic physics substantiate this number, or is it way
out of line?  

		Thanks,
			Tom Peschman