From:	JOHN SPAIN <93135653@****.dcu.ie>
Subject:	Re: Restarting the Plot
Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:35:58 +0000 (GMT)

Just been thinking, considering the risks involved for maxim in testing,
and considering that they already had 'got away with it', i.e. they had
the nukes and nobody was any the wiser, it seems rather foolhardy to test
the nukes. It just occurred to me thinking about the french tests in mururoa,
and how everyone said they weren't necessary because computer simulations
could do 'em just as well. And then I remember a little nugget of info
I read in a book about nuclear weapons, to the effect that the bomb used
in Nagasaki, unlike the one at Hiroshima, hadn't been tested before because
the scientists were confident it was a foolproof design (I think it was a
fusion bomb, not fission, but I ain't sure)

Anyhow, I just loove punching holes in people's plots ;) :)

Oh yeah, and the Maxim ICBM's have been tested to distraction too, haven't
they?? Hah! Conclusion: Velli is suicidal! :) :)

Oh, and on the line of using plagues as weapons -

Picture a stealth plane seeding a cloud formation with crystals, rain falls,
and the people in the land below in a radius of, oh, say 30 kilometers dies
misteriously. You can limit an otherwise uncontrollable plague by engineering
it to extremely dependant on a given growth factor, that could even be an
artificial molecule, for added safety. Sure, the strain could mutate, but
with the technology available in SR you could make the strain mutation
resistant, and avoid the pitfalls.

Thus, biotech and nuclear weapons are equated. Tah Dah! (Okay, okay, not too
useful against hardened targets, but against a bunker or sommething like that,
you could add another bug designned to attack the enviroseal filters, and...
hmmm... all this merits thinking about...)

BTW, I'm still waiting for the joke about the irishman and the canadian...

Shesh. I'll hafta do it meself.

Two irish guys are in Canada, and the see a sign by a road that leads to a
forest:

'Tree fellers wanted'

'Jaysus Mick, look at that. Pity there's only two of us'

Hmph. Sounds better live.

-J.S.