Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: hall@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (john hall) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Nuclear Devastation Message-ID: <6844@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 24 May 89 04:12:33 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 17 Approved: military@att.att.com From: john hall On the generic quality of "destroy the world n times" statements. To the best of my knowledge this was traditionally calculated as: ( Hiroshima + Nagasaki explosive power / deaths from same) * ( explosive power used in scenario / worlds population ). ----------------------- On Nuclear Winter: Ben Bova has a story where the US and USSR know the limit on nuclear winter, the USSR launches a strike just under the threshold, meaning a US retaliation kills the world.