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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: plutonium
Message-ID: <791@burl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:06:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.791
Posted: Fri Aug  2 11:06:16 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 04:44:05 EDT
References: <541@bentley.UUCP> <499@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

In article <499@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>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).

Plutonium is VERY VERY VERY poisonous (the most poisonous substance known
to man) ONLY IF IT IS INHALED.

This is not to suggest, however, that you win money in bars by betting
that you can ingest a gram of plutonium without injury -- unless you wish
to market yourself as a nightlight.
-- 

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