Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense Plan Message-ID: <4244@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 17:45:08 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4244 Posted: Mon Aug 20 17:45:08 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 17:45:08 EDT References: <966@ulysses.UUCP>, <1255@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 > 500 bombs. 500 times 10 megatons each? 500 times 500,000 people killed per > bomb (maybe not so many since some cities might accidentially get two bombs > and one is enouch to kill a city). Most of those bombs will probably fall on military targets like ICBM silos. Remember that *which* 5% gets through is random. Also, the warheads are more likely to be 1 megaton or a fraction of a megaton; really big bombs are much less common than people think. This is not to minimize the problems; 99.9% effectiveness would be a lot better than 95%. -- "The trouble with a just economy is, who runs the Bureau of Economic Justice?" Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry