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From: abh6509@ritcv.UUCP (Ralph Nadier)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: plutonium
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 12:46:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 12:46:21 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.
> 
An invisible speck of plutonium when inhaled can cause lung cancer
in bad-ass short measure. Its still 95% fatal. I suppose ingesting
Pt. could cause a pretty bad case of bad taste.

					Andrew