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Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!duke!bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
From: bch@unc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Replace MAD with MAF
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Date: Tue, 22-Nov-83 01:15:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 22 01:15:53 1983
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Actually, rabbit!jj's proposal makes sense and is in substantial agreement
with the ideas of people who have studied the TTAPS figures.  (This is
weird, I seldom agree with jj on ideas political.)  Another nice feature
is that it takes a whole lot less weapons than we have right now!  Essen-
tially about 1000 missiles, targeted at cities, will produce enough of
a pall to produce the "nuclear winter" effect (100 Megaton nominal.)
That's only 0.8 percent of the world nuclear arsenal!  The biggie, of
course, a 10000 megaton war cities and counterforce (silos, air bases)
keeps it sub-freezing for well over a year, and that's still only 80%
of the worlds nuclear arsenal.
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					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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