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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.sci,net.bio
Subject: Plutonium
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Date: Wed, 2-Apr-86 11:03:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  2 11:03:01 1986
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>... there is the
>danger (seldom mentioned) of scads of plutonium being released throughout
>the Earth from the destruction of the other side's nuclear weapons.
>Those weapons contain about 100,000 pounds of plutonium.
>Just a few pounds of plutonium could kill everyone on earth.
> 
>          tim sevener  whuxn!orb

Certainly nuclear weapons are dangerous (understatement of the decade) but
I am tired of hearing statements that a few pounds of plutonium can kill
everyone on Earth.  This was gone over recently in net.columbia.
(Note:  I am cross-posting this to net.sci and net.bio.  Would someone there
please give me some references that would tend to confirm or refute Mr.
Sevener's statement on the toxicity of plutonium?)
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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