| From: | Michael Orion Jackson <orion@****.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Disposable Terrorists (was re: Fashioning Nukes etc.) |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:57:28 -0500 |
think of the pay-off in terms of body count on the receiving end...
Even a "cheap" crappy device detonated in the corporate centers of Chicago
or New York or any of the other major centers in UCAS/NAN/CAS at noon on a
workday would cause unparalleled havoc...
And unless some of you are physicists, I would call the physics
that goes into bomb design easy by any means. Yes, the overall theory
isn't that hard to grasp (slap two peices of fizzy stuff together to make
boom (easier in desgn than one peice of fizzy stuff compressed)), but the
actual precise design is mucho complicated (there is an atomic weapons faq
out there somewhere that I found once that included among other things a
100+ pg. construction section (not the practicalities, just the equations
and theory that went into making a device (things like radiation
hydrodynamics, the theory involved in tracking the radiation like flowing
water as it progressed through the device over the few microseconds after
detonation))).
An extremely large and well-funded terrorist group could do it
now. But it is more likely in the domain of nations. Besides, what with
the abysmal state of the former soviet union (or the Soviet disUnion as
I've heard it aptly described), people are far more likely to just _buy_
the device they need for their nefarous purposes.
*****************Michael Orion Jackson******************
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