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From: hjsdvm@ziebmef.uucp (Howard J. Scrimgeour)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Nuclear Devastation
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Date: 7 Jun 89 03:35:45 GMT
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From: hjsdvm@ziebmef.uucp (Howard J. Scrimgeour)
In article <6958@cbnews.ATT.COM> military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) writes:
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>From: sun!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm
>I remember seeing an article in BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS which
>calculated 1000 warheads of 1 megaton each would be enough to "destroy"
>Europe.  Their criterion was producing enough fallout to kill everybody
>who wasn't in a real deep shelter.  They assumed ground bursts to maximize
>fallout.  I believe the article appeared in 1978 or thereabouts.



What did they consider to be a "real deep shelter"? Two feet of 
packed earth reduces radiation by 2 orders of magnitude (99%).

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