Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!peter
From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: plutonium
Message-ID: <217@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:11:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: kitty.217
Posted: Fri Aug  2 11:11:51 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 07:35:48 EDT
References: <541@bentley.UUCP> <499@mit-vax.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 15

> Nothing, probably. Plutonium is VERY VERY VERY poisonous, but not
> particularly explosive (the amount needed to make a bomb is not easily
> transported).

This is pure bull. Have you any idea how big the New York City water
supply IS? The evidence is, in fact, that the threat was carried out.
At least the radioactivity of the water increased slightly after the
threat was made. No smily-face, this is straight from the news. The
increase caused no significant increase in risk, as the background radiation
in New York is very high (concrete being slightly radioactive) to begin
with.

And to make a bomb all you need is a couple times critical mass. That can
be carried in a briefcase. The whole bomb can be fit into a backpack. In
fact the army has a low-weild backpack bomb.