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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: plutonium
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:42:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 14:42:54 1985
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> Recently, a terrorist threatened to pollute the NYC water supply with
> weapons grade plutonium. That's pretty bizarre! 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?
> Besides, I think the mayor himself made up the plutonium scare in sight of
> the recent drought, just so people would drink less water.
> -- 
> Robert A. Novo	"Captain! They put creatures in our drinking water!"

     I think that plutonium salts are poisonous enough that it would take
noticeably *less* plutonium to poison everyone in NYC than whatever
plutonium's critical mass happens to be.  Of course, I could be wrong.
It happened once before.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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