Re: Gauss Weapons

In a message dated 4/27/00 6:25:09 AM Central Daylight Time,
nyrath@clark.net 
writes:

<< 
    For some time in the immediate future you are going to
    be short a soldier, while your opponent will have the use
    of his poisioned soldier until said soldier is too sick to
    function.
  >>

AT which point he will tie up medics, transportation people, hospital 
facilities, graves and registration people and expend a large portion of
cash 
to support his last days - a "wounded" individual is always more expense
than 
a KIA to his war effort. But that's not an important point right now. 
Plutonium poisoning was reputedly used by the KGB as an assassination
weapon 
- a tiny sliver of the metal was jabbed into the victim.