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Re: Shoulder launched nukes?

From: Popeyesays@a...
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:27:12 EDT
Subject: Re: Shoulder launched nukes?

In a message dated 9/24/99 10:01:19 AM Central Daylight Time, 
UsClintons@aol.com writes:

<< 
 ahhh.....but that assumes TODAY'S technology...who knows what
breakthrough 
tomorrow holds (warp drive anyone?)
    ;-)
  >>

I will happily accept the possibility of another kind of bomb sometime
in the 
future. Perhaps sustaining and collapsing an artificial black hole of 
significant mass, or a matter/ antimatter/ containment mixture or
anything 
else you might come up with, but the earlier specification was for a
nuclear 
bomb man-deliverable weighing less than the necessary mass for creating
a 
critical mass and the package for fusing, and delivering it. To set off
a 
nuke takes a less than inconsiderabnle mass of explosives and intensely 
sophisticated  electronic triggers for the conventional explosive.
Usually a 
diffuse ball of nuclear material is made and then surrounded by
explosives 
that will detonate a spherical trigger which implodes (slams toegether
into a 
much more dense mass which results in the uncontrolled reaction. All
that 
takes weight (mass).


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