<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><i>Unfortunately the produce would be seething with radioactive Strontium 90 which seeps into human bone marrow and causes cancer".</i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><i><br></i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I read that every one of us has strontium 90 in our bones. How much is too much?</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">bill w</div></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 12:11 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Anders </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-239448931231064240gmail-"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>> </div>On 2016-11-05 14:42, Jason Resch wrote:</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-239448931231064240gmail-">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Any cites for that? I have not come across anything like that in my research, and find it implausible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4">It probably comes from Peter Byrne's book "The Many Worlds Of Hugh Everett".<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Byrne claims that Everett <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>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 "<i>political or psychological grounds</i>". 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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> <i> </i></div><i>"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".</i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><i><br></i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div><br></font><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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