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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Plutonium, Water, Tactical vs. Strategic
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Date: Sat, 17-May-86 00:11:13 EDT
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>>When we begin to talk about 3000 20 Megaton bombs in nuclear airburst
>>configurations with targets spaced within a 200 mile radius of each
>>other, preferably on a cloudy day, we could see a "blanket effect" of
>>burning hydrogen/oxygen between the individual targets.  Some small
>I really don't have the facts to back up this, but I doubt you do
>either. I suspect that someone with a better knowledge of physics would
>calculate that the energy released by the burning H2 O2 would be peanuts
>compared to that initially released by the bomb.

Er--where is this H2 going to come from?  If the hydrogen comes from the
dissociation of water into H2 and O2, the burning of the H2 will release
exactly as much energy as was used up in the dissociation in the first place.
Conservation of energy, you know...
-- 
"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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