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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense Plan
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 17:45:08 EDT
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> 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%.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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