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Article #620103Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:05
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:05
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:44:49 -0500, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: >hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > >> On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 7:52:41 PM UTC-5, Dan Espen wrote: >> >>> Trump proposes new small tactical nukes. >>> What do you think? >> >> I thought they developed those 40 years ago. Watson Jr, in his >> memoir, mentions that in his post IBM service with the US Govt, >> he saw nuclear weapons with "dial a yield". He thought that >> was creepy. > >http://tinyurl.com/y7sxtodz > > Mattis: The U.S. Needs a Smaller Nuke to Prevent Nuclear War > >> Anyway, given that today we have some pretty awesome delivery >> missiles--"when we blow up the wall, which way do you want >> it to fall?"--so maybe tactical nukes aren't necessary. >> >> Nukes are nasty because they give off unseen deadly radiation and >> contamination. A conventional bomb blows up and it's done. But >> a nuke contaminates with nasty stuff. > >Right. Bomb North Korea and all of a sudden you've got problems >in South Korea, Japan, China, Russia. Even considering usage >is STUPID beyond belief. > >Besides, that's just what we need, small nukes that can be smuggled >into various places. We have those. So do the Russians. Ever _see_ an '80s vintage 100 kiloton warhead? It's much smaller than you expect. >> I wonder how many baby boomers died from leukemia induced as a >> result from nuke testing of the 1950s and 1960s. > >Not as bad as Howard Hughes thought.
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