[extropy-chat] Suitcase nukes (was: let's say)

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that uranium is a poor model for plutonium exposure, but
> thorium
> makes a pretty good analog and that too has been dumped en masse and
> there are significant studies of thorium particulate exposure.

You are comparing apples and atom bombs. Plutonium is considered the
most toxic substance to humans. Estimates are that one ounce evenly
distributed amongst the entire populace of the US would kill everyone
(though this estimate was done back when I was a kid, when US
population was around 200 million, and I have doubts about the accuracy
of that, as I heard it from one of my science teachers in HS, who was a
notorious anti-nuker). Thorium is a far far less toxic substance.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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