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Subject: Re: Plutonium
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 12:49:20 EDT
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> >|A few pounds of carbon, *IF* properly distributed in everyone's brain
> >|cells, could indeed kill everyone on Earth.  However, it would be
> >|practically impossible to distribute a mere few pounds of carbon in such
> >|a way that it *would* kill everyone on Earth...
> >
> >I hope you know that you are talking nonsense. Carbon is non-toxic
> >as a compound, and by just distributing it physically, it will kill
> >no-one...
> >Personally, I doubt that anyone can really anticipate the effects that
> >the release of large amounts of plutonium oxide in the athmosphere
> >would have.
> 
> Yes, I know I was talking nonsense; Tim Sevener was also.  But you're
> changing the subject.  Mr. Sevener was talking about small amounts
> of plutonium; you are talking about large amounts of plutonium oxide.
> Note the differences:  "small" vs. "large", and "plutonium" vs. "plutonium
> oxide".
> -- 
> gregregreg

I was talking about the incredible toxicity of small amounts of plutonium.
However I also pointed out that there are one hundred thousand pounds
of it in nuclear warheads.  I would not call that a "small amount".
Especially in light of its incredible toxicity.
             tim sevener  whuxn!orb