Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!jejones From: jejones@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: Re: Lockport Blast: safety of oi - (nf) Message-ID: <3400018@ea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 16:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.3400018 Posted: Fri Aug 3 16:54:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 06:59:06 EDT References: <447@tty3b.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:tty3b:-44700:ea:3400018:000:472 Nf-From: ea!jejones Aug 3 15:54:00 1984 #R:tty3b:-44700:ea:3400018:000:472 ea!jejones Aug 3 15:54:00 1984 What ea!mwm says is true, however, lest the anti-nuke bozos flame about the linear assumption, let what should be obvious be known, namely that the linear assumption is a more cautious one than that of a threshold, and is the one used in practice, so it doesn't really matter whether a threshold exists for purposes of the nuclear monologue (as Petr Beckmann calls it). Socrates drank organically-grown hemlock (which has an infinite half-life), James Jones