Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: plutonium Message-ID: <499@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 03:19:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.499 Posted: Tue Jul 30 03:19:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 20:09:08 EDT References: <541@bentley.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 In article <541@bentley.UUCP> ran@bentley.UUCP (RA Novo) writes: >My question is: If you >had enough plutonium to effectively contaminate the New York City reservoirs, >and decided to make bombs instead, what could you blow up? >Robert A. Novo Nothing, probably. Plutonium is VERY VERY VERY poisonous, but not particularly explosive (the amount needed to make a bomb is not easily transported). -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "You are a stupid fool." -Wang Zeep "I'm not a fool!" -The Hated One