The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

brunians at brunians.org · 18 Mar 2009, 16:36 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:36:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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They are not incredibly useful weapons.

They are very useful for off-planet construction projects.

I can make you a device, for a couple of thousand dollars, that should
yield as much as a tactical nuke (say, 1000 tons of TNT). Maybe ten
thousand dollars.

You use gasoline and liquid oxygen and a little bit of dynamite.

You don't even really need the LOX, but then the mechanism is more
complicated.

Here is a brief discussion of this fascinating class of modern weapons:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/fae.htm



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> Adam Thornton wrote:
>
>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Tim Walters wrote:
>>
>>> By the way: do you support private ownership of nuclear weapons?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> See, that wasn't so hard.
>
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