[ExI] mutual assured injury

[William Flynn Wallace]

*Unfortunately the produce would be seething with radioactive Strontium 90
which seeps into human bone marrow and causes cancer".*

​John K Clark​

I read that every one of us has strontium 90 in our bones.  How much is too
much?

bill w

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 12:11 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Anders <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
>
> ​>> ​
>>> On 2016-11-05 14:42, Jason Resch wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> ​ ​
>>> A study by Hugh Everett showed even a small nuclear exchange of 100 or
>>> so nukes would lead to the deaths of billions from radioactive pollution.
>>>
>>
>> ​> ​
>> Any cites for that? I have not come across anything like that in my
>> research, and find it implausible.
>>
>
> It probably comes from Peter Byrne's book "The Many Worlds Of Hugh
> Everett".
> ​ ​
> Byrne claims that Everett
> ​ ​
> was one of the first to point out that any defense against
> intercontinental ballistic missiles would be ineffectual and building an
> anti-ballistic missile system could not be justified except for "*political
> or psychological grounds*". Byrne makes the case that Everett was the
> first one to convince high military leaders through mathematics and no
> nonsense non sentimental reasoning that a nuclear war could not be won.
> Byrne says Everett showed that
> ​ * ​*
> *"after an attack by either superpower on the other, the majority of the
> attacked population that survived the initial blasts would be sterilized
> and gradually succumb to leukemia. Livestock would die quickly and
> survivors would be forced to rely on eating grains potatoes and vegetables.
> Unfortunately the produce would be seething with radioactive Strontium 90
> which seeps into human bone marrow and causes cancer".*
>
> ​John K Clark​
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20161106/85d5f5d3/attachment.html>